On July 4, 1893 local rancher William Rogers became the first person to climb the tower after constructing a ladder of wooden pegs driven into cracks in the rock face. Technical rock climbing techniques were first used to ascend the tower.
Devils Tower National Monument is right in the North-Eastern of Wyoming! It holds a tower of hot rock from a volcano that rises 865 feet from the Mountains bordering the Belle Fourche river.
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I like the picture of Devils Tower.
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that you put a picture of devils tower. Devils Tower
ReplyDeleteis real cool.
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Wyoming Indian.
There is an old native story of how the devils tower got its cracks. hudda and maurice
ReplyDeleteHey, did you know there was a old story about a big bear casing people on top of Devils tower. Phoenix Jaelynne Jake
ReplyDeleteThe Devils is famous in our state of wyoming.
ReplyDeleteMs. Smith's 4th grade class writes:
ReplyDeleteThe Kiowa legend says they were camped on a stream where there were a great many bears. One day, seven little girls were playing at a distance from the village and were chased by some bears. The girls ran toward the village and the bears were just about to catch them when the girls jumped on a low rock, about three feet high. One of the girls prayed to the rock, “Rock take pity on us, rock save us!” The rock heard them and began to grow upwards, pushing the girls higher and higher. When the bear jumped to reach the girls, they scratched the rock leaving their claws marks as grooves in the tower. Eventually, their claws broke and they fell on the ground.
The rock rose higher and higher until the sisters were pushed up into the sky, where they now are, seven little stars in a group (The Pleiades).
http://www.nps.gov/deto/historyculture/first-stories.htm