Devils Tower
by Andrzej Szczerski
Title
Devils Tower
Artist
Andrzej Szczerski
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting
Description
Devils 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. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
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: Mat?ó Thípila, Crow: Daxpitcheeaasáao (Home of Bears), Aloft on a Rock (Kiowa), Tree Rock, Great Gray Horn, and Brown Buffalo Horn (Lakota: Ptehé ?í).[citation needed]
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. All information signs in that area use the name Devils Tower, following a geographic naming.
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June 8th, 2023
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Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Andrzej!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "Your Best Work"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! 😊
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