Heritage Enhances Resilience?: The Solomon Butcher History Project of Custer County, Nebraska

Author(s): LuAnn Wandsnider

Year: 2018

Summary

Solomon Butcher was a citizen photographer smitten with what he referred to as the "history project," to photodocument the citizens of Custer County, Nebraska as the frontier receded further west. From 1886-1892, he imaged perhaps one third of the occupants, staging them in front of occupied or recently abandoned sod houses and making them party to his commemoration of a constructed pioneer heritage. When severe droughts hit in the mid-1890s, did this shared pioneer "can-do" heritage sustain Custer County residents? I report on a comparative analysis addressing this question.

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Heritage Enhances Resilience?: The Solomon Butcher History Project of Custer County, Nebraska. LuAnn Wandsnider. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 442935)

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Abstract Id(s): 20886