Blackened Prairie

Don Ultang

Des Moines Register & Tribune

This picture was made during the great prairie fire which ravaged five hundred square miles of Dakota grass and wheat land north-east of Pierre. The lone white school, the barn and outhouses which look as though they are floating on a magic carpet, were saved as plowmen hastily turned up a barrier of fresh earth.

Don Ultang, "Blackened Prairie," in POYi Archive, Item #238, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/238 (accessed April 16, 2024).