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Electricity? There was none here. Just dirt walls, sealed with newspapers, or the precious pages of books that were torn from the binding and mixed with spit and mucilage made from the hoofs of dead animals to attempt to seal out the wind. There are perfectly documented accounts of Great Plains residents going insane from the blowing of the wind in winter; especially susceptible were women, who by virtue of the times and their children could rarely go far from the home like these sod houses. These are the sorts of residences that the less affluent settlers of the Plains initially had to settle for; they had no money to import quantities of wood, and there was no way to move those sorts of supplies, anyway. So soddies were built, and made do with as best the residents could.
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