The Inhabited Prairie brings Terry Evans’s aerial photographs into focus as a record of the land people occupy and transform. Fields, waterways, cemeteries, and military sites reveal overlapping patterns of natural history and human activity. Fifty black-and-white images resist the idea of the prairie as an empty or uniform expanse, inviting a closer reading of its surfaces. An accompanying essay by environmental historian Donald Worster deepens the book’s consideration of nature, culture, and the marks each leaves on the landscape.
