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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.pl.

an arid region in S. Alberta and S.W. Saskatchewan characterized by severe erosion and weird land formations and containing dinosaur and other fossils.

Quotations

1910

At the same time, a certain amount of horse and cattle stealing . . . was . . . to be laid at the doors of . . . white desperadoes who came up from the border "bad lands."

1962

. . . from the Drumheller Badlands . . . came dinosaur bone jewelry.

2n.pl.

swampy wasteland characterized by stunted vegetation, and rock; barrens. Also badland.

See: muskeg

Quotations

1868

They are divisible into two groups, --a lower . . . to which the name "Bad Lands beds" may be given. . . .

1958

Across the Fraser . . . the big ranches . . . and, farther west, the badlands of stunted trees and swampy roads seem to have resisted progress.

1966

By their paddles . . . they forge into . . . badland . . . beyond the smog of civilization.