Show BAD LA LANDS IN MONTANA allea ailee on miles of chaims fa fantastically carved it seems to me that no human being can stand on that spot and view that marvelous labyrinth of wild natu nature re without being BO ing thrilled by it instantly your thoughts fly to the gr grand canyon oi of the colorado ai as seen from point sublime only this Is in miniature the fact that you stan d on a sharp point from which the world drops steeply deeply awa away y on oa three ce sides la Is not flot tho the thin thing 9 t that ai la Is so BO profoundly impressive it le la the depth dem the breadth and the awful wilderness 01 0 the maze of bad lands ini int which k you ak look B before e fore you ind and on either hand thera stretch miles upon miles of ragged chasms divided and walled in afi by a thousand fantastic cliffs and buttresses and dom domes of df naked hard lian pan that stubbornly defy the forces of erosion and refuse to cru crumble m bie down in several places there are masses of earth a rth architecture jecture that remind bile one of the ruined castles on the he rhine these bare walls are mostly of gray earth not rock and the carving of them has been most strangely done li it Is only oily when you climb among them and touch them that the wonders of erosion are fully revealed tho the hadd hard dry earth has most stubbornly resisted the disintegrating action of the water wind he heat dt and cold and there are hundreds of earth cliffs nearly as smooth and aik as perpendicular as the brick wa walls alls of harlem I 1 dis dislike like to estimate the total drop arop of these bad lands from tho the plateau to the waters of snow creek but I 1 think it Is about feet after tho file first moments or of sp spellbound e 11 wonder and amaze you began to pick pack out the geography geogia phy of what lies before you you see that the axis cfall of all thlu wild bild waste of carved and furrowed earth Is the lovel level and very narrow valley of snow creek creak which comes down from the west you can easily trace its ite course eastward to the point where it bends abruptly no northward rt hward and runs into the parallel with the last eight miles of hell creek in the creek bottom there Is a sinuous string of cottonwood treesa trees spens and willow brush scribner |