Solomon Butcher first saw Nebraska in 1880 when he claimed homestead land in northeast Custer County. He had been working in Ohio as a traveling salesman, but joined his father, brother George and brother-in-law J.R. Wabel when they migrated from Illinois to Custer County to take homestead claims. Not unlike other Plains homesteaders, Solomon made his first home by stretching a wagon cover over a hole in the ground. Pioneering did not suit him one iota, and he shortly turned his claim back to
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