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Light on the prairie : Solomon D. Butcher, photographer of Nebraska's pioneer days / Nancy Plain.
- Title
- Light on the prairie : Solomon D. Butcher, photographer of Nebraska's pioneer days / Nancy Plain.
- Author
- Plain, Nancy
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | TR140.B88 P53 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 113 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Juvenile works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: A tenderfoot goes West -- The great American desert -- Solomon Butcher, sodbuster -- "Eureka!:" - Attack of the grasshoppers -- Desperadoes -- Years of trial, years of change -- Peioneer history of Custer County -- Sweet Nebraska land -- Where to find Solomon Butcher's photographs.
- ISBN
- 9780803235205 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0803235208 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012001341
- OCLC
- 775779292
- SCSB-12718610
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library