Dugout (shelter) - Wikipedia
A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. Dugouts can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, or dug into a hillside.
Dugout Homes - History in Early America - Burrow Bureau
Dugout Home. These settlers were rough and tumble, which explains why they were not afraid of long journeys into the wilderness, or rumors of battles with tribes of Native Americans.
The Dugout: Pioneering Frontier Homes – Mother Earth News
1970年9月1日 · The dugout were frontier homes that sheltered families unable to afford clapboard houses. Originally published as "The Frontier Dugout" September/October 1970 MOTHER EARTH NEWS.
Prairie Dugout House - Fine Homebuilding
2017年7月12日 · Prairie Dugout House. This 1845 dugout home was dug into the lee side of a hill and required very little in the way of lumber. The dugout house is one of the earliest types of shelters known to man, and around the world many are still in use today.
Dugout - TSHA
1994年12月1日 · A dugout is a rude shelter dug into the ground and roofed with sod or occasionally some other material. It was a most common shelter on the Texas plains and prairies, where timber for building was scarce.
Dugout | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
2010年1月15日 · A type of dwelling, shelter, or other structure that is wholly or partially below ground constitutes a dugout. Dugouts were often carved into the sides of hills, banks, or ravines and were enclosed by a front wall built of sod or logs.
Dugout Construction - Nebraska State Historical Society
Dugout Construction. The dugout was a makeshift, temporary home and a predecessor of both the sod house and the log and frame house in early Nebraska. Such shelter was more easily made than other homes, according to Everett E. Dick’s Conquering the Great American Desert: Nebraska (1975).
A Dugout Flood - Nebraska State Historical Society - History …
The sod house is iconic of Nebraska’s frontier period, but many pioneers started out in an even simpler form of housing—the dugout. Historian Everett Dick described how to build one in his 1975 book Conquering the Great American Desert. In short: dig a …
How To Build A Dugout Shelter - The Survival Journal
One of the oldest types of housing, dugout shelters, or sniper holes is the key to survival when you are stuck in the wild. Dugout houses work as a shield to wild animals and the cold of the night by stabilizing the temperature and hiding you from the sight of dangerous creatures.
Dugout Homes - Can You Dig It? - Earth Homes Now
Not only this, but dugout houses are much cheaper and affordable than those of todays’ homes that require luxury interiors. You can also connect back to the old times, and nature, by creating a dugout house.