How Frontier People Built Hidden Shelters in 72 Hours That Still Work Today

How Frontier People Built Hidden Shelters in 72 Hours That Still Work Today A plains dugout, cut into a sheltered slope with a ridgepole and a deep soil roof, was built in about three days by a family with a spade, an axe and a few neighbors, as covered in this history of frontier homesteads. The description covers how settlers chose a south-facing bank above the water line, how they dug the room, laid sod-brick walls and raised the ridgepole, and why sod houses on open flat ground took weeks rather than days. Subscribe for more.