The Devil's Tower was established as the first U.S. National Monument in 1906. The Devil's Tower is spectacular. Each Plains Indian Tribe have their own belief of the Tower. Some legends say that a girl turned into a bear and running after her sister and slipped and made the scratches on the big rock; another says that a brave's wife had become infatuated with a bear and when they went to the bear he was so big that it scared the braves. They ran to the top of the big rock and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them and the rock began to grow saving the braves. There are more legends all a little different but all seem to revolve around a bear and the rock. Whichever legend you believe it is a very spiritual place and while we stand there watching the tower I could hear the tribes chants in the wind.
I loved that the park took the time to stamp footprints along the trails, some human and others not.
This is my friend Sam, the Prairie Dog. His lives in a prairie dog "town" at the bottom entrance to Devil's Tower. He was so nice to pose for this picture. Sweet puppy but not too close, puppies will bite.
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