What is the author's purpose for providing the description in
this passage?
as the sun angled, the buttes and coulees, the cliffs and
sculptured hills and ravines lost their burned and dreadful
look and glowed with yellow and rich browns and a hundred
variations of red and silver gray, all picked out by streaks of
coal black. it was so beautiful that i stopped near a thicket of
dwarfed and wind-warped cedars and junipers, and once
stopped i was caught, trapped in color and dazzled by the
clarity of the light
to persuade people to visit the bad lands
to inform people of the natural beauty in a part of america
to argue against development of the bad lands
to entertain people with the unusual sights