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HOW TO SEE THE BADLANDS 



The White River Badlands are readily accessible. 

 Many of their features may be observed with pleasure and 

 satisfaction from a Pullman window. Well-travelled wagon 

 roads connect the better known passes and these give 

 opportunity through much of the year for delightful auto- 

 mobile drives. Off-the-road places may be reached by saddle 

 or in pedestrian boots. 



Eailroads cross the country in several places and give 

 abundant opportunity to visit almost any desired locality. 

 The Pierre, Kapid City and Northwestern railroad now 

 merged with the Chicago and Northwestern system, going 

 up Bad River valley and thence over into the Cheyenne 

 valley crosses a narrow northerly projecting arm at the 

 town of Wall, South Dakota. The Chicago and Northwestern 

 railroad from Omaha crosses Pine Ridge from southeast to 

 northwest at Chadron, Nebraska. The connecting Chadron- 

 Lander line, following up the head of White River cuts 

 Pine Ridge from northeast to southwest near Crawford and 

 again farther west in a nearly east-west direction in Con- 

 verse county (now Converse and Albany counties) Wyom- 

 ing. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad from 

 Lincoln traverses the Crawford locality from southeast to 

 northwest, it being nearly at right angles to the Chadron- 

 Lander connection of the Chicago and Northwestern. 



The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad gives to 

 the car window sightseer the best and most abundant op- 

 portunity to view the general ruggedness of the Badlands 

 and affords also a very good opportunity to study close at 

 hand, though in hasty manner, many things of interest. For 

 many miles this railroad winds its way up White River 

 valley along the southern face of the Great Wall, then 

 plunges into the very heart of the picturesque Big Badlands 

 the culminating feature of all the area included under the 

 name, White River Badlands. From near Kadoka to Scenic 

 there is a never ceasing array of those topographic pecular- 

 ities that make the region famous and, in the Big Badlands, 

 they are placed together in most fantastic manner. Sheep 

 Mountain (Cedar Point), the most famous locality of all 



