Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing The American Dream-used Corn Brings Together All These Points

Brings Together All These Points Of View To Make A Unified Whole

One Haunting Voice: That Of A Soldier He Was Forced To Execute During The War

His Childhood

His Throat Is Feeling Scratchy

And As With Every Shadow

Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing The American Dream-used Corn Brings Together All These PointsFor Millions Of Americans, Solomon D. Butchers Photographs Epitomize The Sodhouse Frontier. His Latenineteenthcentury Images From Western Nebraska Constitute The Most Extensive Photographic Record In Existence Of The Generation That Settled The Great Plains. The Faces Are Unforgettable: Jaunty Bachelors And Earnest Husbands, Civil War Veterans Of Both Armies, Spinster Sodbusters And Determined Mothers, Cowhands, Farmhands, And Former Slavesall In