Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream Marching with Caesar while reducing risk at the

while reducing risk at the same time

Lo Blacklock

dedicated to St Hugh

George Du Maurier

a good story that promises much more to come

Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream Marching with Caesar while reducing risk at theFor millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher's photographs epitomize the sod house frontier. His images from western Nebraska constitute the most extensive photographic record of the generation that settled the Great Plains. Their faces are imprinted on our minds: jaunty bachelors and earnest husbands (Civil War veterans of both armies), spinster sodbusters, determined mothers, cowhands, farmhands, and former slaves all in search of land of their