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‘The Bad Lands of North Dakotai 111 MOST picturesque spot in North Dakota is the Bad Lands, rising abruptly out of the level, seemingly unending, plains. Daily French travelers called this region “Bad lands to travel through,” for they ditl, indeed prove to be bad to travel through, and the name has remained. I he Bad Lands along the Little Missouri arc confined to a tract only ten to twenty miles wide and about two hundred or more miles along that river. Here river bluffs and buttes, often four or five hundred feet high, reveal horizontal layers of many beautifully colored clays and shales, alternating with bands of sandstones and often with black beds of coal. In the region south of Mcdora, where the slow burning of coal beds has baked the adjacent layers, the strata arc are often brilliantly colored in many tints of reds and yellows, with great masses of scoria, or natural brick appear in many places. Some of these gray faced, red topped buttes are interspersed with small level bottoms clothed in the silver colored, sweet smelling sage brush which attract many a traveler. The buttes, when not wholly naked, arc covered on their north sides, at least, with grass and sometimes trees, while the sunward-turned slopes are more precipitous and often aggressively sterile. When not capped with stone, buttes arc often conical or pyramidal: they erode rapidly, and arc barren and look like huge stalagmites. Hie Burning Coal Mine is a thing of interest to all travelers. The coal vein has been burning for over fifty years and is stdl burning. Some places the burning coal can be seen red hot: other places white hot. It is possible and very often done, for a person to bake potatoes, pop corn, or do any kind of cooking on the ground because of its intense heat. Any person seeing this mine at night will surely be a supporter for the campaign to “Sec North Dako‘:t hirst. For a long time North Dakotans have cherished the hope that the Bad Lands, one of the most amazing and interesting results of nature's vagaries, will be taken under the protecting wing of Uncle Sam as a national park. Surely if Uncle Sam finds funds to maintain national parks in other states, North Dakota should not be discriminated against, for the avoidance of the maintenance burden would amount to discrimination.
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