Peter M. Barnes Dugout near Clear Creek Custer County, Nebraska

Typical dugout home built by homesteaders in the late 1800s on the Nebraska plains. Peter M. Barnes dugout, near Clear Creek, Custer County, Nebraska, 1887. Left to right: Ed Barnes, a son, Mrs. Peter M. Barnes, and Peter M. Barnes at the south edge of Swiss Valley.

Dugout, near Clear Creek, Custer County, Nebraska 1887

Dugout, near Clear Creek, Custer County, Nebraska 1887