Swaying plumes of native grasses once stretched from Texas to the Canadian province of Manitoba, but today the tallgrass prairie gently rises and falls on only a few million acres in Kansas and Oklahoma. Aimee Guignon Larrabee and John Altman, a cousin of director Robert Altman's and maker of more than two dozen documentary films of his own. Singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett hosts and actor Michael Murphy narrates. Ultimately, their film reflects the soil as it lives and breathes.
Cattle munch tender new shoots just as buffalo did centuries ago.
Streaks of fire zigzag through a black prairie night. The wind rustles grasses with names like little blue stem, prairie smoke, prairie blazing star. All rights reserved.