Sodbuster - Into Cyberspace

We chose the name Sodbuster because it exemplifies the beliefs, history, and lifestyle of Southwest Nebraska. Technically, a sodbuster was a horse or ox-drawn plow especially designed to break the thick grass of the prairie. Also, people used "sodbuster" as both a term of endearment and of derision in reference to the pioneer farmers who conquered the land called the "Great American Desert." It is as a term of endearment for the people of this region that we chose this name.

For the first 100 years of this nation’s history, no white man really wanted this land. "The Great American Desert," as the mid-nineteenth century maps called the area between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, was considered an unfit area to live. It was too hot and dry in the summer, and too cold and snowy in the winter to live here--let alone farm. Early explorer, Zebulon Pike, claimed that the area west of the Missouri River was "incapable of cultivation."

With grand determination, hard work, and faith, sodbusters overcame great obstacles to turn the plains into "The Bread Basket of the World." With the same determination, hard work, and faith, Sodbuster sets forth to conquer the newest American frontier -- cyberspace. While participating in the cutting-edge technology of the Internet, we will be a voice of reason to shape a future based upon the time-honored principles of the sodbusters.