Sod house Interior, South Dakota (1986)
	It was not an easy matter moving across the Great Plains to locales like this one at the Prairie Homestead National Monument. This well-preserved sod house is kept in good condition in part to remind the unwary of just how great were the privations of the early Euro-Americans who displaced the Indian tenants of the Badlands country. Sod houses are remarkably interesting as historical artifacts, now. But imagine living in them in the dead of winter, with snow drifted in from of the door, with dirt sifting in, and every chink in the walls gusting air.
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