Show CAUSED CAUSE D BY 0 GLACIERS LACIE 9 deture anil location Lort lon of ikone bad lend lands i tho tha peculiar formation of tho the and land lands undoubtedly dates back to tho glacial period for to no other causo can scientists attribute tho immonen butto buttes and wonderful depressions that are bullent features fea turoa of tho the country tho the butter or hill hills of which tho the bod bd lands aro mainly compo composed oed are of lp jr regular elz i arbing from ono one aero acro to aboms on tho the summit nud arm to foot feet in height tho topi top of those button buttes are on level lovel with tho prairie to tho the cant and west vast lloro tho roll soll la Is good and tho the crass grass excellent but along tho the sides and in tho deprez along alone tho the soil if Is a mixture of clay anil awl aana with occasional outcropping out of 0 sandstone for a long pomplo thought that the bad lands were J idt what their namo name implied Im plod but thora noi nei or existed a moro more erroneous impie alon slon rhe cattlemen were tho the drat first to muco tho the disco discovery cry they argued that it tho the bad lands afforded a good winta shelter for tho the door olk mountain sheep shoop antelope anto lopo and bear that every where abounded then tho the hardy texan cattle could certainly find tharo also tho experiment was and proved an u suchs bad and from that time on abo th 0 baj bal landi 0 dakota were bad to them in nt enma 1113 only in point of fact thoro there ia Is no t bal batter country in the west fort for tho he fattening of cattle than out in tho the famous bad lands which today to day havo have a nailoa al reputation among stockmen stoc kmen tho the bad landa lands aro full of lignite which as over body knows it i tho the crudest formation of coal I 1 to work a mino mine a mile or so from modo aledo a and supplied ilio lie town with fuel at ta 2 a ton it cost me 90 cent cents to mino mine it this lignite coal makes a good alre and burna to a whito white ash wa wood docs does there 11 aro re no clin clinkers kera in it U unless ono one strikes a vein impregnated with sulphur one ono of tho the chief points point of interest I 1 in tho the bad lands Is what i 16 known as tho the burning cool coal mino min situ situates atel about eight miles southwest of M modora od or a this mino mine has been burning for 0 or a century it if the reports of tho the indians aro are to bo be believed they used to tell the trappers trop pora that the old men of their tribe sold said tho the mino was burning when they camo came into the country and those who were with lewi lewis and cla fc report seeing it the vein Is of extraordinary thickness and burns so slowly that it may lost last another hundred aa 3 cani 3 ot at I 1 used to u ork a mino mine that was on fire at the opposite end but I 1 had haj every aperture well banked ond the vein burned so slowly that it nowr rimer bothered me in tho the least ilour deposits catch firo fire it Is difficult to ual unless perhaps by a stroke of lightning or by some firo fire left by a careless 1 caw campor camper general Sherl din onca once bald sald tho ther bad lands looked like hell with tho fire put out but little phu phil hod had a N cry faint conception of the tho beautiful and roman j tic scenery in the interior about four miles south of medora lucre are whole acres of petrified pe trifled trees that are on the ground where thoy h hive hwe we undoubtedly been lang for cent arlos tho work of forming new now buttes is I 1 1 constantly going gain on as the rains wash away tho the soft spongy toll that tha rolls roll down into the little 11 1 1 and ll 11 carried oft off to find a lod gement elsewhere in the spring especially thero Is n series v of constant washouts that cry quickly qu akly chairo tho the whole aspect of tho the b bad bul ul lands sometimes on an immense ravine will form during tho tha night directly across a road which has bw been boon in continual use with the huntera hunters and banchera ran raia chera chers it irmay may bo be fifty feet tride wide and fifty feet deep and may necessitate a detour of ee se eral miles ia im order to reach ones ends destination buffalo berries and wild plums plume grm in abundance along the Little missouri and I 1 have seen the game gaine so thick that it has been a common occurrence for me to shoot four deer in one afternoon in fact the country Is a u hunters para dise the buttes of which tho the bid via lands ore are largely composed aror placed in no muro more order than if shot out of a gun one might 7 just an a well attempt to follow the t trail of a bullet through tho the air as the one left by a man who took the slightest pains paini to cover li tracks through tho the country it visa W this that mado made tho the locality so popular imong horae horse thice thieves as between 1882 and 1884 at thit th it timo time little missouri was merely a collection of sh shanties antles but the place boro bore the of being tho the toughest town in tho the united states |