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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
A family poses in front of sod house, south of West Union, Custer County, Nebraska, 1887.
Arriving in Nebraska from Belgium in the spring of 1883, Isadore Haumont poses with his family for Butcher in front of their two-story sod house on French Table, north of Broken Bow, in 1886. |
I'm guessing the family on the bottom had a lot more money and skill than the family on the top. I wonder how many people left the cities to go west and have their own land and were happy for the chance and how many wish they'd never left. I'm sure that life was tough either way.
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