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Where are the Badlands?
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#45270. Asked by jemimah.
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Gatsby722
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South Dakota in the U.S.A.
http://www.nps.gov
For centuries humans have viewed South Dakota's celebrated Badlands with a mix of dread and fascination. The Lakota knew the place as make sica. Early French trappers called the area les mauvailses terres à traverser. Both mean "bad lands." Conversation writer Freeman Tilden described the region as "peaks and valleys of delicately banded colors - colors that shift in the sunshine, and a thousand tints that color charts do not show. In the early morning and evenings, when shadows are cast upon the infinite peaks or on a bright moonlit night when the whole region seems a part of another world, the Badlands will be an experience not easily forgotten." Paleontologist Thaddeus Culbertson had another reaction: "Fancy yourself on the hottest day in summer in the hottest spot of such a place without water, without an animal and scarce on insect astir, without a single flower to speak pleasant things to you and you will have some idea of the utter loneliness of the Badlands."
http://plbdesign.com/SD/bad/index.shtml
[Added second reference - McG]
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