Prairie visions: The life and times of Solomon Butcher - Softcover

Conrad, Pam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590461168 ISBN 13: 9780590461160

Publisher: Scholastic, 1992

Synopsis

First Scholastic Printing, September, 1992, Paperback. This book by Pam Conrad is A Portrait of American Pioneers. This excellent book is about a pioneer photographer, Solomon Butcher, who settled in Nebraska His life and times are depicted in the text and by many excellent black and white photographs assembled by the author.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Conrad first discovered Nebraska photographer and chronicler Solomon Butcher while researching her novel Prairie Songs ; she then "made him up" and he became a character in that book. Now Conrad has returned to the archives to present the real Butcher in informative but lighthearted prose and Butcher's own delightful, often quirky photos. The prairie photographer comes across in these pages as a man with a vision, but also as a man with a sense of humor, and one who wasn't exactly driven by his dream. Accused of being "afraid of work," Solomon replied, "On the contrary, I could lie down and go to sleep alongsic side of it at any time." His photographs of careworn, unsmiling prairie families squinting into the sun outside their "soddies" speak volumes about their hard lives, and the stories he collected and recorded are valuable (and frequently hilarious) memorials to a bygone era. Ages 10-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0590461168
• ISBN 13: 9780590461160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 85