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Bad Lands   /bæd lændz/   Listen
Bad Lands

noun
1.
An eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska.  Synonym: Badlands.





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"Bad Lands" Quotes from Famous Books



... wonders known only through books, the journey across the continent—with its glimpses of the mighty snow-capped crags of the Rockies outlined against the fiery sunset skies of that region, the weird castellated rocks of the "Bad Lands," the colonies of funny little prairie-dogs peeping out of their burrows, the blanket-wrapped Indians waiting at the stations, and finally the awesome vision of the stupendous canyons and precipices ...
— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
... Ogibo who held the law and kept the peace for his master, the King of the Akasava, was bitten many times by the tsetse on a hunting trip into the bad lands near the Utur forest. Two years afterwards, of a sudden, he was seized with a sense of his own importance, and proclaimed himself paramount chief of the Akasava, and all the lands adjoining. And since it is against nature that any lunatic ...
— Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country • Edgar Wallace


Words linked to "Bad Lands" :   Coyote State, Nebraska, Mount Rushmore State, Cornhusker State, SD, geographic region, ne, geographical region, badlands, geographic area, geographical area, South Dakota


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