Bad lands
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Barren regions, especially in the western United States, wherehorizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded intofantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack ofwood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing thecountry, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French,Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
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