Solomon butcher biography

BUTCHER, SOLOMON ()

Solomon D. Butcher's photographs made the sod house an American icon. No other photographer captured settlement in the Great Plains with such insight into the experience of homesteading.

Butcher was born on January 24, , in Burton, Virginia.

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His father moved the family to Illinois four years later, and it was there that Butcher spent his childhood and first learned the science of photography. Butcher spent one term at the Henry Military School in Henry, Illinois, but soon gave that up to work as a traveling salesman.

In Butcher's father again moved on, this time to Nebraska.

Solomon gave up his job as a salesman and went along. It took them approximately six weeks to reach the northeastern corner of Custer County, where Butcher's father, Butcher himself, and his brother George, who also made the trip, filed homestead claims.

It took Butcher only two weeks to realize he was not made for homesteading, and he returned his claim to the government. There followed a