Take a look and see if you can guess why French-Canadian fur trappers called this section of the South Dakota prairie “bad lands to cross.”
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What’s the weird smell? Your video is a cliffhanger! :-)
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Never did figure it out – I guess we’ll be hanging on the edge of the cliff indefinitely! :)
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Insects! You’d think it would be bug-free. Love your videos!
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Nothing in the Midwest seems to be bug-free! ;)
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I don’t think I’d like to cross the Badlands on a horse or worst yet, walk it. Stark and telling video! Thanks, Jan
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It’s a wonder anyone survived out there? No water I guess and precious little top soil for anything to grow. Is it in the rain shadow of the Rockies?
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I think the rain level’s okay – just not much soil. Sure looks like a desert, though!
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