Within its 70,665 square miles, the state of North Dakota holds a blend of contrasts that photographer Chuck Haney presents in these color images. Baking summer days can begin with cool, dewy mornings; wide, placid rivers churn under cloudbursts; in a semi-arid climate, amazing badlands formations have been sculpted by water's ongoing attention; meadows of gently-shaded wildflowers spring up to replace surging snow drifts.

People, and few and friendly and hardy in this land, which exacts so much and also rewards so generously. Now, in this album, people everywhere can savor the beauties that North Dakotans have been enjoying all along.