"Let sculptors come to the Badlands. Let painters come.  But first of all the true architect should come.

He who could interpret this vast gift of nature in terms of human habitation so that Americans on their own continent
might glimpse a new and higher civilization certainly, and touch it and feel it as they lived in it and deserved to call it their own.

Yes, I say the aspects of the Dakota Badlands have more spiritual quality to impart to the mind of America than
 anything else in it made by man's God."     - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935

The rain was light, but driven by a hard wind that made it fly horizontally.  A bit further south, in Oklahoma, was where the tornadoes were ravaging.    The grimness of the weather complimented quite well the other-worldly landscape.