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ous rain-storms keep the edges and angles 

 sharp and jagged, and pile up boulders and 

 masses of loose detritus at the foot of the 

 cliffs and great lonely crags. Sometimes 

 the valleys are quite broad, with steep sides 

 and with numerous pockets, separated by 

 spurs jutting out into the bottom from the 

 lateral ridges. Other ravines or clefts taper 

 down to a ditch, a foot or so wide, from 

 which the banks rise at an angle of sixty 

 degrees to the tops of the enclosing ridges. 



The faces of the terraced cliffs and sheer 

 crags are bare of all but the scantiest vege- 

 tation, and where the Bad Lands are most 

 rugged and broken the big-horn is the only 

 game found. But in most places the tops 

 of the buttes, the sides of the slopes, and the 

 bottoms of the valleys are more or less 

 thickly covered with the nutritious grass 

 which is the favorite food of the black-tail. 



Of course, the Bad Lands grade all the 

 way from those that are almost rolling in 

 character to those that are so fantastically 

 broken in form and so bizarre in color as to 



