| Summary: | And Its Pioneers 509 Second: The rolling prairie or glaciated regions situated between the Red River and the Missouri River exclusive of the old lake bottom areas just mentioned; elevation, 1,200 to 1,600 feet. All of this landscape was covered by the great ice sheet but was never at any time covered with large bodies of water. It is marked by ranges of rounded hills, some of them high, and many small lakes with no outlets. Third: The Missouri Slope, including the famous Badlands; elevation, 1,800 to 2,000 feet. These regions which were not at any time covered with the ice of the great ice sheet, and which is drained by streams having well established courses, many high hills, with flat tops and steep sides and no lakes. Most of the lignite coal beds, the burning mine, all of the potter's clay and Pyramid Park of petrified stumps and trees are found in this region. Glacial Lake Dakota was a glacial lake in the James River Valley. It occupied a small part of Dickey county but was mostly in South Dakota. Glacial Lake Sargent covered most of Sargent county, a part of Ransom comity and extended into South Dakota. THE BADLANDS OF NORTH DAKOTA The Badlands of North Dakota are in the extreme southwestern part of the state. They lie on each side of the Little Missouri River, beginning where it enters the state and extending north and northeast for approximately 100 miles, and are about 20 miles wide. A country of inspiring scenic beauty and marvelous colorings like numerous far flung Indian blankets, stretching for many miles across the landscape. It is a truly real wonder land, wild, weird and as yet unspoiled; a land rude, alluring, barbaric, yet sweet, fresh and clean. The hills of the Badlands are not the "everlasting variety." They were caused by rapid erosion. They are the work of those master sculptors, the sun, the wind, the frost, and the rain. The soil is still wearing away and exposing the secrets of ages past to the student of geology. Vulcanism had a part in forming them. It is supposed that ages ago the lignite coal burned in many places and formed the red scoria hills. Ancient forests covered this area. In fact raaiiv Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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