 | Science - 1874 - 418 pages
...stream which is liable to be dried up in the latter part of the summer, whence the name of the carton. On ascending the butte to the east of our camp, I...giant race. The utter -desolation of the scene, the dried up water-courses, the absence of any moving object, and the profound silence which prevailed... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Scientists - 1913 - 456 pages
...writes : No scene ever impressed the writer more strongly than the view of one of these Badlands. . . . On ascending the butte to the east of our camp, I...silence which prevailed, produced a feeling that was positively oppressive. When I then thought of the buttes beneath my feet, with their entombed remains... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Scientists - 1913 - 460 pages
...writer more strongly than the view of one of these Badlands. . . . On ascending the butte to the eist of our camp, I found before me another valley —...silence which prevailed, produced a feeling that was positively oppressive. When I then thought of the buttes beneath my feet, with their entombed remains... | |
 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1878 - 594 pages
...Badlands. . . . On ascending the butte to the east of our camp, I found before me another valley—a treeless barren plain, probably ten miles in width. From the far side of this valley, buttc after butte arose and grouped themselves along the horizon, and looked together in the distance... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Scientists - 1913 - 454 pages
...impressed the writer more strongly than the view of one of these Badlands. . . . On ascending the hutte to the east of our camp, I found before me another...silence which prevailed, produced a feeling that was positively oppressive. When I then thought of the buttes beneath my feet, with their entombed remains... | |
 | Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 332 pages
...of unbelievable age and grandeur. On one of his few western expeditions, Leidy wrote movingly of the land: On ascending the butte to the east of our camp,...race. The utter desolation of the scene, the dried-up water courses, the absence of any moving object, and the profound silence which prevailed, produced... | |
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... first time one of the grand fossil-bearing regions of the West. Referring to an excursion into the Badlands, he writes : No scene ever impressed the writer more strongly than the view of one of these Badlands. . . . On ascending the butte to the east... 