Devils tower - Wyoming,
N 44° 35.444 W 104° 42.900
13T E 522621 N 4937527
The legend of the Devils Tower
Waymark Code: WM12X7T
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 07/30/2020
Views: 11
Devils Tower, also known as Bear Lodge Butte, is a butte composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
There are several legends, this is one of them.
"According to the Native American tribes of the Kiowa and Lakota, a group of girls went out to play and were spotted by several giant bears, who began to chase them. In an effort to escape the bears, the girls climbed atop a rock, fell to their knees, and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them. Hearing their prayers, the Great Spirit made the rock rise from the ground towards the heavens so that the bears could not reach the girls. The bears, in an effort to climb the rock, left deep claw marks in the sides, which had become too steep to climb. Those are the marks which appear today on the sides of Devils Tower. When the girls reached the sky, they were turned into the stars of the Pleiades."
Source: Wikipedia
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