The Spirit of the Plains: The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dunn Born amidst the rolling landscapes of a homestead farm near Manchester, South Dakota, Harvey Thomas Dunn was a man whose very soul seemed woven from the grasses of the Great Plains. Growing up in the rugged, evocative environment famously chronicled by Laura Ingells Wilder, Dunn developed an intimate connection to the American landscape that would later define his most profound artistic achievements. His early years were shaped by the vastness of the prairie, a setting that provided him with a lifelong reservoir of visual and emoti…