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Bad Lands

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Barren regions especially in the western United States where horizontal strata Tertiary deposits have been often eroded into fantastic forms and much intersected by cantildeons 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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