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	Devils Tower ::
		Devils Tower is a steep body of igneous rock, which originated from the erosional remains of a volcanic neck.
		Devils tower is roughly 40 million years old, and was first proclaimed as a national monument in 1906 by president Theodore Roosevelt.
		The name Devils Tower was first given to the Tower in 1875 by a scientific group lead by Colonel Richard I. People were sent to this area to look for gold, even though their presence was a violation of Indian treaty rights.
	www.freewebs.com /lindsaylemcke (457 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Devils Tower
		Devils Tower is a geological feature located in eastern Wyoming that was established as the first United States National Monument in 1906.
		Devils Tower is a tremendous column of rock standing alone among the pine covered hills of North Eastern Wyoming.
		Devils Tower was seen in the finale of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as the site of the alien mothership's landing.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Devils-Tower (1244 words)

	Devils Tower National Monument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The oldest rocks visible in Devils Tower National Monument were laid down in a shallow sea during the Triassic period, 225 to 195 million years ago.
		Geologists Carpenter and Russell studied Devils Tower in the late 1800s and came to the conclusion that the Tower was indeed formed by an igneous intrusion.
		Although proper grammar would indicate that the monument be called "Devil's Tower," all information signs and references indicate "Devils Tower." The apostrophe was omitted due to a clerical error on early governmental papers, and the version without the apostrophe became its legal, and therefore official, name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Devils_Tower_National_Monument (1413 words)

	Fort Tours \| Devils Tower National Monument
		Scientists believe that Devils Tower is the core of a volcano exposed after millions of years of erosion caused by weather and the Belle Fourche River.
		Devils Tower is a favorite destination for climbers, hikers, and families, with over 450,000 visitors annually.
		Devils Tower is situated just 9 miles south of Hulett, Wyoming, 24 miles west of Aladdin, Wyoming, and 27 miles northwest of Sundance, Wyoming.
	www.forttours.com /pages/tocdevilstower.asp (732 words)

	Devils Tower - tips by travel authority Howard Hillman
		Devils Tower remained underground until two million years ago when water and wind erosion began removing the comparatively softer sedimentary rock around it.
		Devils Tower is not flat surfaced, though it appears to be from afar.
		Devils Tower is the place where the alien spacecraft landed in the hit 1977 movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
	www.hillmanwonders.com /usa/devils_tower.htm (385 words)

	John Donohue's National Park Photos- Devils Tower (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Devils Tower was seen in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", as the site of the alien mothership's landing.
		In the movie Devils tower seems to be brown- but it is actually covered in green lichen.
		Devils Tower is in north east Wyoming, not far from Badlands NP, and Mt.
	www.serve.com /wizjd/parks/devils_tower/devils_tower.html (237 words)

	Glimpses of Our National Monuments (Devils Tower)
		The Devils Tower, an extraordinary mass of igneous rock, is one of the most conspicuous features in the Bear Lodge section of the Black Hills region of Wyoming.
		The Devils Tower was useful to the aborigines as a landmark from which to direct their courses across the plains.
		The Devils Tower is reached by a side trip of 7 miles from the Custer Battlefield Highway and Black and Yellow Trail, two signed highways, which follow practically the same route through northeastern Wyoming.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/glimpses2/glimpses8.htm (609 words)

	NPS Publications: The Geology of Devils Tower National Monument
		Carpenter (1888) interpreted Devils Tower to represent a volcanic plug, being the duct through which the subterranean magmas passed to higher level in the earth's crust.
		The present upper surface of Devils Tower is smooth and possibly represents nearly the actual upper contact, from which the shales have been weathered away.
		The stages in the formation of Devils Tower according to this hypothesis might be represented diagramatically as is shown in the succeeding charts.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/berkeley/effinger1/effinger1h.htm (705 words)

	USATODAY.com - Devils Tower gears up for centennial (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Devils Tower, which was America's first national monument, marks its 100th anniversary this summer, and tourism officials hope that more accidental tourists — along with area residents and the merely curious — will come to see it.
		Devils Tower also figures prominently into the agency's overall, $3 million summer ad campaign and is featured on the new state highway map, Shober said.
		A goal is limiting traffic and noise near the tower, spreading visitors between the new learning center and trails that wind around or near the tower, she said.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/destinations/2006-06-06-devils-tower_x.htm?csp=34 (816 words)

	billingsgazette.com
		DEVILS TOWER NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wyo. (AP) - The National Park Service is planning to create a bus shuttle system to ease summer traffic congestion at the nation's first national monument.
		Since 1985, visitation at Devils Tower has increased from 224,994 visitors a year to about 450,000 in 1990, according to tower officials.
		Devils Tower is a 1,000-foot high tree stump-shaped monolith of exposed volcanic rock in northeast Wyoming.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/09/18/build/wyoming/30-tower.inc (341 words)

	Devils Tower Climbing Wyoming Rock Climbing First Amendment Rights Access
		Devils Tower is open to rock climbing year around, so don't listen to the continued lies & deceptive confusing rhetoric of the Access Fund, NPS, Liberal Media, and Indians that are trying to create a FALSE closure by telling the general public and average visitor that there is a closure.
		Devils Tower, Wyoming (less than 2 square miles of Federal Land completely surrounded by large acreage white land owners) is located in the Black Hills hundreds of miles from the nearest Indian Reservation, and the local community and services they provide are indifferent to the Indian Affirmative Action Policy of the NPS and Access Fund.
		Devils Tower is open to climbing and all white people in June and any other month of the year whether they are climbing or bird watching.
	www.devils-tower.com /freedom (2766 words)

	Devil's Tower National Monument
		The tower is acclaimed as one of the premier crack climbing areas in North America and boasts a colorful 100-year climbing history.
		Geologists agree that Devils Tower was formed by the intrusion (the forcible entry of molten rock into or between other rock formations) of igneous material.
		Geologists Carpenter and Russell studied Devils Tower in the late 1800s and came to the conclusion that the Tower was indeed formed by an igneous intrusion.
	www.usparkinfo.com /devilstower.html (1265 words)

	Sturgis Bike Week, Inc. \| Devils Tower
		Devils Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila) is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River.
		Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
		The oldest rocks visible in Devils Tower National Monument were laid down in a shallow sea during the Triassic period, 225 to 195 million years ago.
	www.sturgisbikeweek.com /rides/devils_tower/index.html (1555 words)

	Devils Tower and Bible Glasses
		Devils Tower, composed of hard, volcanic rock, resisted the erosion and stood alone in the flooded valley as the receding waters flowed around it.
		Devils Tower is over 300 km (200 miles) south of the most southerly extent of the ice sheet, so ice sheets were not involved in the formation of Devils Tower.
		Devils Tower, for example, is described on: Devils Tower, Wyoming, , 4 July 2001.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v24/i3/devils_tower.asp (2165 words)

	Devils Tower National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
		Devils Tower rises 1267 feet above the Belle Fourche River.
		President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the first national monument in 1906.
		Please visit http://www.nps.gov/deto/plan yourvisit/climbing.htm for information on current closures, climbing Devils Tower National Monument, the June voluntary closure, the climbing management plan and update, and more.
	www.nps.gov /deto (177 words)

	Devils Tower
		The top of the tower is at an altitude of 5,117 feet, 600 feet above the base of the tower and 1,270 feet above the level of the Belle Fourche River.
		Devils Tower is formed of igneous rocks that have intruded through the sedimentary rocks that form the local landscape.
		The most striking feature of the tower is the polygonal columns of rock that form the mass of the tower.
	www.hanksville.org /daniel/geology/devilstower.html (716 words)

	OneDayHikes.com - Travel Features
		Rising from the flat Wyoming plains is a towering stone monolith, the sides of its sheer walls etched by columns.
		Devils Tower first became more widely known in 1875, when Colonel Dodge led a military escort for a scientific team on expedition in the Black Hills.
		Tower Trail can be added as a separate loop off this circuit, for a hike totaling 4.25 miles/6.8 km.
	www.onedayhikes.com /TravelFeatures.asp?TravelFeaturesid=22 (956 words)

	Devils Tower National Monument
		Devils Tower National Monument is located in the northeast corner of the state of Wyoming.
		In September of 1906, Devils Tower was declared as the nation’s first national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt.
		Devils Tower is open on a 24/7 basis year round.
	www.devilstowersights.com (576 words)

	Devils Tower 1998 - Part One
		Devils Tower is a National Monument situated in the Northeast Corner of Wyoming on the periphery of the Black Hills, which are predominately situated in South Dakota and best know for Mount Rushmore.
		Flying to Devils Tower is an expensive proposition since the closest commercial airport is at Rapid City, South Dakota, about a hundred miles away.
		They claim the Indians never seemed to have minded that rock climbers had been ascending Devils Tower for more than 100 years, and that some Indians claim their ancestors soloed the tower long before the white man happened along.
	five.ten.tripod.com /dt1998.htm (5672 words)

	Devils Tower National Monument, Devils Tower Wyoming, Climb Devils Tower, Devils Tower WY
		The Devils Tower National Monument is open daily; campgrounds are open from April - October.
		If you are planning on climbing the Devils Tower Wyoming, you are required by law to register before and immediately after climbing each day.
		When you climb Devils Tower please adhere to the "Leave No Trace" policy which entails: staying on trails, pack out all litter, and try to refrain from stepping on any flowers or grass that you may come across.
	www.destination360.com /north-america/us/wyoming/devils-tower-national-monument.php (545 words)

	Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming, United States - OutdoorPlaces.Com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Located in northeastern Wyoming Devil's Tower National Monument was made globally famous by the blockbuster movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
		Devil's Tower National Monument was the first National Monument in the United States established in 1906 and the first National Monument created using the powers of the Federal Antiquities Act.
		Local Native American Tribes believe that the tower is sacred and June is one of the holiest months for the regions Sioux.
	www.outdoorplaces.com /Destination/USNP/WYDevTow/dtnm1.htm (536 words)

	Wyoming’s Devils Tower
		Devils Tower remains a source of spiritual replenishment for at least 20 Plains tribes, including the Crow, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, and Lakota.
		He is a rock-climbing guide at Devils Tower, a celebrated destination for "crack climbing," or shimmying skyward in the joint between two faces of stone.
		Rogues Gallery & Devils Tower Frontier Museum in Hulett, Wyo., eight miles from the park, is home to hundreds of early cowboy artifacts and examples of Plains Indian beadwork.
	www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/devils_tower07.asp (1249 words)

	Climbing Routes at Devils Tower National Mounument - WY
		First free climbed by Fritz Wiessner in 1937 during his yearly travels, Climbing Devils Tower National Monument is a goal of many of our guest and one of the greatest traditional crack climbing areas in the world.
		Because parking is rather limited at the Devils Tower Visitor Center, climbers are asked to park their vehicles in the lower gravel parking lot.
		Devils Tower is in the middle of nowhere, expertise and rescue personnel may take hours to arrive if they are available at all.
	www.sylvanrocks.com /index.php/devils-tower-climbing-routes-and-info.html (915 words)

	Devils Tower National Monument travel guide - Wikitravel
		Devils Tower National Monument [1] is a United States National Monument that is located in Crook County in northeastern Wyoming.
		The Tower was known as "Mateo Tipi" by American indians of the region, and is considered sacred.
		Devils Tower National Monument is administered by the National Park Service, a part of the Department of Interior, and is a popular place for rock climbing, hiking, and as a tourist waypoint located between popular destinations such as Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Badlands National Park, Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park.
	wikitravel.org /en/Devils_Tower_National_Monument (579 words)

	Devils Tower National Monument
		President Theodore Roosevelt established Devils Tower National Monument on September 24, 1906.
		The spectacular rock formation known as Devils Tower and the surrounding countryside, home to a myriad of plant and animal life, attract visitors from around the world.
		Devils Tower National Monument is rich in natural and cultural history.
	www.nps.gov /deto/home.htm (201 words)

	Wildernet - Devils Tower National Monument
		Location - Devils Tower is located in the northeast corner of Wyoming approximately 70 miles northeast of Gillette off Interstate 90.
		As you watch the tower in the movie you are able to look over to your right and see the imposing tower in the darkness(didn't see any ufo's that night).
		The Devils Tower area does have a few shops w/groceries, and trinkets and a few snack bars, but no gas stations.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=WYNPSDEVIL&CU_ID=1 (497 words)

	Devil's Tower, Wyoming
		Thus Devil's Tower has been exposed by erosion, but it is not easy to see from a distance.
		The relationship of the tower to the local landscape suggests it was originally buried and was exhumed by erosion of the Belle Fourche valley:
		The elevated base on which the tower sits suggests the original extent of the intrusion may have been wider and that the intrusion may have shielded the underlying sedimentary rocks during entrenchment of the Belle Fourche River.
	www.uwsp.edu /geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/VTrips/DevilsTower.HTM (456 words)

	Wyoming Devils Tower Centennial Celebrations - The First National Monument - WyomingTourism.org
		Writer M. Scott Momaday once waxed poetic about Devils Tower, proclaiming "There are things in nature that engender an awful quiet in the heart of man." President Theodore Roosevelt showed his love of preservation (and an economy of words) when he declared this "lofty and isolated rock" a national monument 100 years ago.
		For most of its 400,000 or so annual visitors, Devils Tower is a stopover on the way to or from Yellowstone National Park to the west or Mt. Rushmore National Monument to the east.
		Devils Tower has passed one century as a national monument, and millennia more as a sacred spot in Native American culture.
	wyomingtourism.org /cms/d/devils_tower_centennial.php (724 words)

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