Boiler, for anything from laundry to rendering hogs

We took a two-day swing through the Badlands area. We started with a stop at the Prairie Homestead. The first big rush of settlers to the Dakotas got 160 acres of land and set up farms. They did very well in the good years. But this area doesn’t support farms, as the settlers learned soon enough. Droughts and grasshoppers drove them out. This “sodbuster” house is as original and authentic as it gets, and we were allowed to touch anything we wanted. It belonged to the Browns. Here are a few more pics. I’ll post about our other visits separately (to keep text with the pics).

Kitchen – sod wall in the background

Stove is original, waffle maker is period

A few keys of this reed organ still work