All information signs in that area use the name "Devils Tower", following a geographic naming standard whereby the apostrophe is omitted. The name "Devil's Tower" originated in 1875 during an expedition led by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, when his interpreter reportedly misinterpreted a native name to mean "Bad God's Tower". Native American names for the monolith include "Bear's House" or "Bear's Lodge" (or "Bear's Tipi", "Home of the Bear", "Bear's Lair") Cheyenne, Lakota: Matȟó Thípila, Crow: Daxpitcheeaasáao ("Home of Bears" ), "Aloft on a Rock" ( Kiowa), "Tree Rock", "Great Gray Horn", and "Brown Buffalo Horn" ( Lakota: Ptehé Ǧí). The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha). The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level.ĭevils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.
It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from summit to base. Devils Tower in 1900 (left), and red sandstone and siltstone cliffs above the Belle Fourche River (right)ĭevils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) 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.
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