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The Devils Tower Story: America’s First National Monument!
Devils tower biography of mahatma
Devils Tower
Flat-topped volcanic plug in Wyoming, US
For other uses, see Devil's Tower (disambiguation).
Devils Tower in 1900 (left), and red sandstone and siltstone cliffs above the Belle Fourche River (right)
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge)[8] is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River.
It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower National Monument was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.[9] The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
Name
Indigenous names for the monolith include "Bear's House" or "Bear's Lodge" (or "Bear's