| General Non-Fiction posted August 22, 2019 |
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A beautiful, intriguing site in Wyoming USA
Devil's Tower
by aryr
Since I have traveled over a fair bit of the USA and actually all of Canada, I have had the pleasure of seeing many areas.
It was rather hard to pick a place that stood out, but I finally decided on 'Devil's Tower' in the north eastern part of the state of Wyoming. It was initially named in 1875 by Colonel Dodge when the name from the natives was misinterpreted from Mato Tipila of the Lakota tribe meaning Bear Lodge to 'Bad God's Tower' or Devil's Tower.
It was featured in the 1977 movie 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and is considered sacred to the native tribes.
It is a volcanic neck that stands 1267 feet and is a mile of up and down to walk around.
The story is that the ridges were caused by a clawing bear trying to reach children on the top.
Beautiful, impressive, awesome.
Since I have traveled over a fair bit of the USA and actually all of Canada, I have had the pleasure of seeing many areas.
It was rather hard to pick a place that stood out, but I finally decided on 'Devil's Tower' in the north eastern part of the state of Wyoming. It was initially named in 1875 by Colonel Dodge when the name from the natives was misinterpreted from Mato Tipila of the Lakota tribe meaning Bear Lodge to 'Bad God's Tower' or Devil's Tower.
It was featured in the 1977 movie 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and is considered sacred to the native tribes.
It is a volcanic neck that stands 1267 feet and is a mile of up and down to walk around.
The story is that the ridges were caused by a clawing bear trying to reach children on the top.
Beautiful, impressive, awesome.
It was rather hard to pick a place that stood out, but I finally decided on 'Devil's Tower' in the north eastern part of the state of Wyoming. It was initially named in 1875 by Colonel Dodge when the name from the natives was misinterpreted from Mato Tipila of the Lakota tribe meaning Bear Lodge to 'Bad God's Tower' or Devil's Tower.
It was featured in the 1977 movie 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and is considered sacred to the native tribes.
It is a volcanic neck that stands 1267 feet and is a mile of up and down to walk around.
The story is that the ridges were caused by a clawing bear trying to reach children on the top.
Beautiful, impressive, awesome.
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