LITTLE JERUSALEM Badlands
O ONE KNOWS FOR SURE HOW LITTLE Jerusalem Badlands got the name, but around this part of northwest Kansas, that’s what the surprising limestone formations rising from the prairie have been called for as long as anyone can remember. Did miners heading to the Colorado gold fields beginning in 1859 or settlers traveling across Kansas on the Smoky Hill Trail in the 1860s see them in the distance and think they resembled the walled holy city?
