The sod house, or soddy, was a common alternative to the log cabin during the frontier settlement of the Great Plains of North America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Settlers first used sod for animal shelters and fences before adapting it for human dwellings, because the region lacked conventional building materials such as timber and stone while prairie grass, with its dense root system, was abundant and free.
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