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Once westering pioneers reached their destination, they had to build homes. Those homes reflected the available natural resources of the land. In forested areas, log homes were popular. Some areas in rocky terrain used stones. Some in the Southwest, where clay was plentiful, used adobe. On the Great Plains, sod houses, called “soddies,” were the most common abodes. (There were some wealthier settlers who brought pre-cut timber cabin kits with them offered through the Sears & Roebuck catalog…

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The concept of rendezvous involved fur supply brigades taking goods to the mountain country where the trappers lived and trapped beaver. But there also were places established during the era that were fixed-site posts. The Bordeaux Post, originally operated from 1837 to 1876, is one of them, located at the Museum of the Fur Trade on the east side of Chadron. Dugout House, Sod House, Conch House, Earth Sheltered Homes, Prairie Home, Camping Set Up, Earth Sheltered, Living Roofs, Sauna Design

The concept of rendezvous involved fur supply brigades taking goods to the mountain country where the trappers lived and trapped beaver. But there also were places established during the era that were fixed-site posts. The Bordeaux Post, originally operated from 1837 to 1876, is one of them, located at the Museum of the Fur Trade on the east side of Chadron.

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