Description: Title: Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days Author: Plain, Nancy Publisher: Bison Books Binding: Paperback Pages: 128 Dimensions: 9.00h x 7.09w x 0.31d Product Weight: 0.56 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780803235205 Once President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D. Butcher was there to document it, amassing more than three thousand photographs and compiling the most complete record of the sod house era ever made. Butcher (1856-1927) staked his claim on the plains in 1880. He didn't like farming, but he found another way to thrive. He had learned the art of photography as a teenager, and he began taking pictures of his friends and neighbors. Butcher noticed how fast the vast land was "settling up," so he formed the plan that would become his life's work--to record the frontier days in words and images.Alongside sixty-two of Butcher's iconic photographs, Light on the Prairie conveys the irrepressible spirit of a man whose passion would give us a firsthand look at the men and women who settled the Great Plains. Like his subjects, Butcher was a pioneer, even though he held a camera more often than a plow. Watch an interview with the author. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Light on the Prairie : Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Photography, History / United States / State & Local, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Artists, Architects, Photographers, People & Places / United States / General
Publication Year: 2012
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction, Photography, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Author: Nancy Plain
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
