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Bad Lands
Webster's Dictionary
Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by ca?ons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bad Lands'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/bad-lands.html. 1828.