The name Devil's Tower originated in 1875 in an expedition led by Colonel Richard Iving Dodge when his interpreter misinterpreted something as a bad Tower of God. It's so bad that God is the devil. To understand the place called Devils Tower, many perspectives are also required. Ancient people have lived around the Tower for thousands of years; their modern descendants still maintain a physical and spiritual connection to this place.
The oral histories transmitted by various American Indian tribes, as well as their current ceremonies, offer us important insights into the Tower. Although some details vary from tribe to tribe, many aspects of the Early Devil's Tower Stories remain the same. As rain and snow continue to erode the sedimentary rocks surrounding the base of the Tower, more parts of the Devil's Tower will be exposed. Visitors can also observe Ursa Major, the star formation of Ursa Major or Ursa Major, just above the Devil's Tower in the night sky, along with many other important star clusters and constellations referred to the area's native American culture.
Draft climbing management plan and environmental assessment, Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming (July 1999). There are things in nature that create terrible tranquility in the human heart; the Devil's Tower is one of them. Geologists Carpenter and Russell studied the Devil's Tower in the late 19th century and concluded that it was formed by an igneous intrusion. The sacred narratives surrounding the formation and spiritual meaning of the Devil's Tower continue to be told throughout the centuries of Native American history, preserved as a traditional part of Native American culture throughout the region.
You might remember the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which Richard Dreyfuss fills his living room with dirt and garbage to sculpt a replica of Devils Tower. O'Harra (from the South Dakota School of Mines) theorized that the Devil's Tower must be an eroded remnant of a laccolyte. Some of these wooden stakes are still intact and can be seen in the tower when you walk the 2.1 km (1.3 mile) Tower Trail at Devils Tower National Monument. Senator Francis Warren, for example, despite the interests of Wyoming industries, was a strong supporter of Devils Tower being a national monument.
If Mondell had thought that Wyoming voters wanted or needed a National Monument to the Devil's Tower, he would surely have promoted it in his re-election campaign in 1906. Pohd-lohk, an elderly Kiowa, gave Scott Momaday (Kiowa) the name Tsoai-talee (The Rock Boy), after Pohd-lohk, an old Kiowa man, who linked the boy to the myth of the bear in the Devil's Tower. Survey of special plant species of concern at Devils Tower National Monument (Bonnie Heidel), December 2000. The Devils Tower visitor center is located three miles from the park entrance and contains information about the site's natural and cultural history. At Devils Tower, you can see every phase of the process of creating a forest, from bare rocks to pine trees.
