Going down Cedar Pass, Badlands National Monument, SD, circa 1938

Subjects: Mountains & Hills National & State Parks
Card type: Linen
Date: c. 1938 (Linen)

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A road curves down through Cedar Pass, with a guardrail on the bend and the eroded ridges and pinnacles of the South Dakota Badlands rising around it. Beyond the pass, the view opens onto a broad plain under a pale sky. Cedar Pass cuts through soft layered rock that wind and water have carved into sharp cones, walls, and flat-topped buttes. The area was proclaimed a national monument by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, and the grass-covered plains below the formations have long supported grazing.

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PublisherBlack Hills Novelty and Mfg. Co.

211.-GOING DOWN CEDAR PASS, BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, SOUTH DAKOTA The Bad Lands are the world's greatest example of the production of weird, fantastic, unexplainable freaks of nature, through early erosion. Great moun- tains, deep canyons, little hills, castles, palaces, fort- resses and figures of every shape stand silently, with- out a spear of vegetation, while at their feet is that nutritious grass which makes South Dakota famous. These Bad Lands are now embraced in the Bad Lands National Monument, created by President Roosevelt in 1938.

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Publisher	Black Hills Novelty and Mfg. Co.
Series	46155
Condition	Very good
Place depicted	Badlands National Monument, SD
Place mentioned	Bad Lands National Monument, Fort Pierre, SD
Publisher	Black Hills Novelty and Mfg. Co., Rapid City, SD
Notes	Linen texture visible; printed caption number 211 ('GOING DOWN CEDAR PASS, BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, SOUTH DAKOTA'). No postmark; unused card. Divided back, linen texture, no white border. Dealer pencil price mark '112 / 2.00' at top. Publisher imprint: Black Hills Novelty and Mfg. Co., Box 1589, Rapid City, S.D.; series no. 46155.

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Going down Cedar Pass, Badlands National Monument, SD, circa 1938, postcard, c. 1938. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/going-down-cedar-pass-badlands-national-monument-sd-circa-19. Accessed November 2, 2026.