Show BAD LANDS IN MONTANA miles on miles of rugged chasms chaaw fantastically carved it seems to me that no human be ing can stand eland on that spot and view that labyrinth of wild mature without being thrilled by it instantly your thoughts fly to abill th grand canyon of the colorado as seen from point sublime only thin Is in miniature the fart that you stand on a sharp point from which the world drops steeply away on three sides bides Is IB not the thing that Is so BO profoundly profound ay iy impressive it I 1 Is the depth the breadth and the awful wilderness of the maze of 0 bad lands landi lut int which you ou look before you and on either hand there stretch miles upon miles or of ragged chasms divided and walled waited in by a thou sand fantastic cliffs and buttresses and domes of naked hard pan that stubbornly defy the forces of erosion and refuse to crumble down in several places there are masses of earth architecture that remind one of the ruined castles on oil the rhine those these bare walls ape roost most ly of gray earth not rock and t the he carving of them has baa been most strangely done it Is only ahen hen you climb among them and touch them that the wonders of are fully revealed the hard dry earth has haa most stub borely resisted the disintegrating 1 action I of the water wind heat and old cold find and there are hundreds of earth cliffs neatly neaily as smooth and as gerpen as aa the brik abrl k walls of harlem I 1 dislike to ei cimato the total drop of these bad lands from the tha plateau to the waters of snow crek creak but I 1 think it Is about feet after the first moments of spell bound wonder and amaze you begin to 0 o pick out the geography of what lies before you IOU ou see bee that the axis of bit all this wild waste of carved land and furrowed earth Is the eiel eland and very ery narrow valley of snow creek which comes down from the west you can easily trace its course et ward to the be point where it bends benda abruptly northward and runs into the missouri parallel with the last as t eight miles of hell creek in the creek bottom there Is a sinuous string of cottonwood trees ashens aspens add willow brush scribner |