Reading about pioneer women is a favorite hobby of mine, especially women homesteaders. This is one of my favorite pictures~Lizzie, Lutie, Jenny, and Hattie Chrisman standing in front of their Nebraska sod house in 1886. I can only imagine the adventures they must have had!
Hi RoseMary wow what it must have took to build that house... talk about small living. Another thing I noticed is how Bold the fabric of some of those dresses is - they must have been ahead of their time- sure doesn't look like they favored calico prints like they did on the LHOTP tv show.
ReplyDeleteWanted to tell you at my house that isn't stained glass it is a paint called gallery glass it is maid by plaid you can get it online or at Michaels and Hobby Lobby.
I used to love to lay my head down on our old scratched wooden desks after recess and Mrs. Dunavent would read the Little House books to us third graders. I used to try to imagine what it was like to live in a sod house.
ReplyDeleteLove that old picture, are the relatives of yours?
Ranae, you are right, those are bold fabrics! Wouldn't you love to be able to browse through an old Dry Goods store from that era and look at the fabric?!
ReplyDeleteTammy, the girls are not related to me. My folks never made it any further than Oklahoma until the Great Depression.
I love the picture and I love the names of the women. Can you imagine living in a house like that? They had lots of chores, but at least they didn't have a lot of house to keep clean.
ReplyDeleteohhhhhhhh I love reading about pioneer women too..you need to share some book titles with us..
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine what a sod house must be like... I like that picture. I read on someone's blog that they read the Little House on the Prairie books every winter... and I thought... hmmm... I've never read them, so that is on my "to do" list soon.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a little girl, we traveled and camped in the high country in Colorado and visited many ghost towns. I have always felt so fortunate for that experience because I could go into, see and touch some of the original homesteader homes and get an idea of what it might have been like.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the photograph, Rose Mary!
Isn't it amazing how the pioneers built those old soddies.
ReplyDeleteWe lived in an earth contact house, but it had a conventional roof and one side was out of the ground. The old house is the reason we have so many windows in this house!:-) Felt like we lived under the ground for 20 years. Although, they are supposed to be very ecologically friendly.
The picture reminds me of Willa Cather's books.
I too enjoy that time of era. I wish I was around then.
ReplyDeleteI've always been drawn to the women homesteaders too and love vintage photos like that. And we think we have it hard....
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