'Terres Mauvaises, Utah', 1874. Badlands - dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been eroded by wind and water - in Utah, USA. 'The region is really, by Nature, an arid desert, made up of veritable "Terres Mauvaises"', literally, 'bad lands'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]