In the Euro-American settlement of the plains, sod construction was pretty common. They would cut the sod and stack it like bricks to make a house. https://en.

In the Euro-American settlement of the plains, sod construction was pretty common. They would cut the sod and stack it like bricks to make a house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod_house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod_house