A sod homestead built in 1900. Pennington County, South Dakota. Since 1900 this sod house has been standing to mark a farmer's effort to reap wealth from the Great Plains. At the time of its construction there must have been skirmish after skirmish with the cattlemen as the fence of the homesteader narrowed down the range. Then wartime prosperity, with the price of wheat booming. Then the years of intermittent drought, up to the present, and instead of wealth, a bitter battle to achieve mere subsistence on the parched earth [graphic].
Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer.
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Nitrate negatives. gmgpc
1936 May-June.
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Farms, farming--South Dakota
United States Pennington County.
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