“I mentioned how I had lived in the oil boom. I described the buttes of the badlands. The smell of the sage. The yolk-yellow breasts of the sage grass. How if you sat long enough, waited for the golden hour, then the entire sweep of the badlands surged into a riot of reds and purples and golds. I told him how there were ponderosa pines tucked into the southwestern pocket of North Dakota, but that they looked shrimpy compared to the ones here, in the rain-forest of the Olympics.” HorizonPrairieNorth DakotaPastoralButteSky ColorsPonderosa Pines Book:Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Source: Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land