Dan Flores

Mary Austin with her book Land of Little Rain back at the turn of the 20th century.

And one of my favorites is Evelyn Cameron.

that British expatriate who lived with her naturalist husband outside Terry, Montana, and who, in the years from about the 1880s through about 1915 or so, photographed, endlessly photographed all that country around Terry.

And as I mentioned in the script, one of the sort of fascinating things about her and her husband is that

They not only were intrigued by the wildlife of eastern Montana, but they had this thing where they would capture young coyotes, in one instance, two young wolf pups, and raise them up as pets.

And so there are all these remarkable photographs of Evelyn and her husband with these various animals, all kinds of raptors.

predatory raptors and coyotes and wolves in particular.

Yeah, it does.

It's, as Georgia O'Keeffe said about the red hills, the badlands around her place outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, it's,

it's a marvelous place to climb around in.

And it's that kind of country.

It's very human scale.

Badlands mounds are, uh, most often not more than 35 to 50 feet high.

So they're fairly easily scalable and climbable.

And, uh, it's a, it's a kind of a, a landscape with rhythm and symmetry to it, along with color and, and sculpture that, uh,

Uh, I've found for most of the time I've been in the West really arresting.

I mean, I've, as I mentioned in that script, I've made long pilgrimages in order to see particular Badlands country that I hadn't spent time in.

And, uh,

And I've done it repeatedly just because I'm moved by that kind of terrain.

It's got a granular kind of surface tactile feel to it.