Bad Lands

plural noun

1. a barren, severely eroded region in SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska.

Bad Lands

plural noun

1. a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska

Example Sentences

And I can easily see how people are driven back to the Bad Lands.

From Literature

Going in quest of a gold mine, the little band is spied by Indians, chased across the Bad Lands, and overwhelmed by a snowstorm in the mountains.

From Project Gutenberg

I did not envy him the peril of that sixty-mile jaunt through the Bad Lands, but it was an old story to him.

From Project Gutenberg

Here is a short example of Indian story-telling: Far out in the middle of the “Bad Lands” upon the Little Missouri, there stands a pillar-like butte some four or five hundred paces in height.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1880 the Northern Pacific Railroad was built nearly to the edge of the Bad Lands, and the danger of Indian war was totally eliminated.

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