cover image Prairie Visions: The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher

Prairie Visions: The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher

Pam Conrad. HarperCollins Publishers, $9.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-06-446135-1

PW praised this combination of biography and social history, commenting that Butcher's images of ``careworn, unsmiling prairie families squinting into the sun outside their `soddies' speak volumes about their hard lives.'' Ages 10-up. (Mar.)