A mansion of Nebraska marble

[Delmonico]

The Isadore Haumont two-story sod house on French Table north of Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska.  Isadore was from Belgium and settled in Custer County.  Sod was often jokingly referred to as Nebraska Marble.

Pictures 10734 and 10735 in the Butcher collection:





Not a common style saddle on the prairie:



Interesting door:



A look into the other door:



And a look at the family:







Notice the young man has one of those shirts that buttons up the back, these are fairly common in these pictures:

[GunClick Rick]

How the hell did they get them mud bricks to stay up,must not have rained much..

[Delmonico]

I survived until 1967, it was lived in till the 1930's, the roof protects it and as long as it's kept patched up, they last a long time. 

[Four-Eyed Buck]

English style saddle, or side saddle??

[Delmonico]

English style saddle, or side saddle??

It's what we call English, most of Europe uses that type, the Aussies do two, they have a modified one that is their stock sassle.  They don't do much roping, drovers down there tend to tail them down.  Got a customer who comes back to his in'laws every couple years.  He's a drover on a station in The Northwest Territories, they get their electricty from generators and their phone, TV and internet via satellite.