My wife's great grandparents and my great grand parents both lived in sod houses. They were in the land runs in totally different parts of what is now Oklahoma.
This was in Driftwood, OK, my great grandparents. Their first "real house" and they converted the sod house to a root cellar. No electricity, and just a hand pump in the kitchen for water, and a outhouse in the back yard.
My grandmother told about the day her dad came home and said they were getting an indoor toilet. She immediately said "Dad way about the smell!" and he laughed and said it was going to be a flush toilet with running water and they were getting electricity for running water in the house.
The kept the outhouse as a backup, and for hired hands to use.
Jerome, Arizona Street Scene 1895. In 1899 the San Francisco Examiner called Jerome the “wickedest town in America”, with “one beggarly looking church and at least sixteen saloons and more going up.”
Lobscouse was a common part of the Civil War soldier's diet:
"Take a bit of fat pork and melt it over the fire in a frying-pan or tin plate. Break up the hard-tack into small pieces and drop it into the frying fat. Let the whole mess sizzle together until the cracker is saturated with the fat and the result is a product that looks and tastes like pie crust. It is quite palatable...
I suspect if you are really hungry, it was great.
Mine near Leadville, Colorado late 1800s.
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