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Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge) 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.[1]

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  1. 94 relations: Arvol Looking Horse, Associated Press, Bald eagle, Barbara Cubin, Bear Butte, Bear Lodge Mountains, Belle Fourche River, Bill House, Black Hills, Butte, Cheyenne, Civilization VI, Climbing route, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Columnar jointing, Crook County, Wyoming, Crow language, Crust (geology), Durrance Route, Elephant Butte (Sierra County, New Mexico), Entrance Road, Entrance Station, Feldspar, Free climbing, Fritz Wiessner, Great Spirit, Gypsum, Gypsum Spring Formation, Herbert A. Collins, Hexagon, Hulett, Wyoming, Igneous rock, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Intrusive rock, Jack Durrance, Jurassic, Kiowa, Laccolith, Lakota language, Lakota people, List of national monuments of the United States, Magma, Missouri Buttes, Mountain States Legal Foundation, N. Scott Momaday, National monument (United States), National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Native Americans in the United States, Nelson Horatio Darton, ... Expand index (44 more) »

  2. 1906 establishments in the United States
  3. Archaeological sites in Wyoming
  4. Columnar basalts of the United States
  5. Devils Tower National Monument
  6. Kiowa
  7. Lakota mythology
  8. Monoliths of the United States
  9. National Park Service National Monuments in Wyoming
  10. Natural history museums in Wyoming
  11. Paleocene volcanism
  12. Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
  13. Rock formations of Wyoming
  14. Volcanic plugs of the United States
  15. Volcanism of Wyoming
  16. Volcanoes of Wyoming
  17. Wyoming folklore

Arvol Looking Horse

Arvol Looking Horse (born 1954) is a Lakota Native American spiritual leader.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America.

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Barbara Cubin

Barbara Lynn Cubin (née Turner; born November 30, 1946) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, Wyoming's sole member of that body.

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Bear Butte

Bear Butte is a geological laccolith feature located near Sturgis, South Dakota, United States, that was established as a State Park in 1961. Devils Tower and Bear Butte are Black Hills, IUCN Category III, Religious places of the Indigenous peoples of North America and sacred mountains of the Americas.

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Bear Lodge Mountains

The Bear Lodge Mountains (Mato Tipila) are a small mountain range in Crook County, Wyoming. Devils Tower and Bear Lodge Mountains are Black Hills.

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Belle Fourche River

The Belle Fourche River (pronounced bel FOOSH; Šahíyela Wakpá) is a tributary of the Cheyenne River, approximately long, in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. Devils Tower and Belle Fourche River are Devils Tower National Monument.

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Bill House

William Pendleton House (1913–1997) was an American climber.

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Black Hills

The Black Hills is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. Devils Tower and Black Hills are Lakota mythology, Religious places of the Indigenous peoples of North America and sacred mountains of the Americas.

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Butte

In geomorphology, a butte is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands.

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Cheyenne

The Cheyenne are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Civilization VI

Sid Meier's Civilization VI is a turn-based strategy 4X video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.

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Climbing route

A climbing route (Kletterrouten) is a path by which a climber reaches the top of a mountain, or rock/ice-covered obstacle.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.

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Columnar jointing

Columnar jointing is a geological structure where sets of intersecting closely spaced fractures, referred to as joints, result in the formation of a regular array of polygonal prisms, or columns.

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Crook County, Wyoming

Crook County is a county in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Wyoming. Devils Tower and Crook County, Wyoming are Black Hills.

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Crow language

Crow (native name: Apsáalooke or) is a Missouri Valley Siouan language spoken primarily by the Crow Nation in present-day southeastern Montana.

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Crust (geology)

In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.

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Durrance Route

The Durrance Route is a climbing route on Devils Tower in Wyoming, United States. Devils Tower and Durrance Route are Devils Tower National Monument.

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Elephant Butte (Sierra County, New Mexico)

Elephant Butte is a summit that is now in the Elephant Butte Reservoir and within the Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Sierra County, New Mexico.

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Entrance Road

The Entrance Road at Devils Tower National Monument, officially known as Wyoming Highway 110, is a scenic road that provides the approach to the Devil's Tower eminence, affording planned views to arriving visitors.

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Entrance Station

The Entrance Station at Devils Tower National Monument is a log cabin in the National Park Service Rustic style, built in 1941.

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Feldspar

Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.

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Free climbing

Free climbing is a form of rock climbing in which the climber can only use climbing equipment for climbing protection, but not as an aid to help in their progression in ascending the route.

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Fritz Wiessner

Fritz Wiessner (February 26, 1900 – July 3, 1988) was a German American pioneer of free climbing.

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Great Spirit

The Great Spirit is an omnipresent supreme life force generally conceptualized as a supreme being or god.

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula.

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Gypsum Spring Formation

The Gypsum Spring Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Middle Jurassic age in the Williston Basin.

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Herbert A. Collins

Herbert Alexander Collins, Sr., (1865–1937) was a Canadian-born American artist.

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Hexagon

In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ, hex, meaning "six", and γωνία, gonía, meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon.

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Hulett, Wyoming

Hulett is a town in Crook County, Wyoming, United States.

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Igneous rock

Igneous rock, or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Intrusive rock

Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.

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Jack Durrance

John Randall Durrance (July 20, 1912 – November 7, 2003) was a pioneering American rock climber and mountaineer.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

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Kiowa

Kiowa or Cáuigú) people are a Native American tribe and an Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries,Pritzker 326 and eventually into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century.

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Laccolith

A laccolith is a body of intrusive rock with a dome-shaped upper surface and a level base, fed by a conduit from below.

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Lakota language

Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi), also referred to as Lakhota, Teton or Teton Sioux, is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes.

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Lakota people

The Lakota (pronounced; Lakȟóta/Lakhóta) are a Native American people.

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List of national monuments of the United States

The United States has 133 protected areas known as national monuments.

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Magma

Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.

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Missouri Buttes

Missouri Buttes or Little Missouri Buttes are located in Crook County in northeast Wyoming on the northwest flank of the Black Hills Uplift. Devils Tower and Missouri Buttes are Volcanism of Wyoming and Volcanoes of Wyoming.

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Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservative free market public interest law firm based in Lakewood, Colorado.

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N. Scott Momaday

Navarre Scotte Momaday (né Mammedaty; February 27, 1934 – January 24, 2024) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

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National monument (United States)

In the United States, a national monument is a protected area that can be created from any land owned or controlled by the federal government by proclamation of the president of the United States or an act of Congress.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Nelson Horatio Darton

Nelson Horatio Darton (December 17, 1865 – February 28, 1948) was a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey.

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Ogden Driskill

Ogden Driskill (born July 24, 1959) is a Republican member of the Wyoming Senate, representing the 1st district since 2011.

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Old Headquarters Area Historic District

The Old Headquarters Area at Devils Tower National Monument includes three structures and their surroundings, including the old headquarters building, the custodian's house, and the fire hose house.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Phonolite

Phonolite is an uncommon shallow intrusive or extrusive rock, of intermediate chemical composition between felsic and mafic, with texture ranging from aphanitic (fine-grained) to porphyritic (mixed fine- and coarse-grained).

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Piton

A piton (also called pin or peg) in big wall climbing and in aid climbing is a metal spike (usually steel) that is driven into a crack or seam in the climbing surface using a climbing hammer, and which acts as an anchor for protecting the climber from falling or to assist progress in aid climbing.

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Pleiades

The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, reflects an observed pattern formed by those stars, in an asterism of an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.

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Porphyritic

Porphyritic is an adjective used in geology to describe igneous rocks with a distinct difference in the size of mineral crystals, with the larger crystals known as phenocrysts.

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Porphyry (geology)

Porphyry is any of various granites or igneous rocks with coarse-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate-rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass.

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Prairie dog

Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) are herbivorous burrowing ground squirrels native to the grasslands of North America.

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Rapid City Journal

The Rapid City Journal (formerly the Black Hills Journal and the Rapid City Daily Journal) is the daily newspaper of Rapid City, South Dakota.

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Raynolds Expedition

The Raynolds Expedition was a United States Army exploring and mapping expedition intended to map the unexplored territory between Fort Pierre, Dakota Territory and the headwaters of the Yellowstone River.

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Redox

Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.

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Richard Irving Dodge

Richard Irving Dodge (May 19, 1827 – June 16, 1895) was a colonel in the United States Army.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Scree

Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Shiprock

Shiprock (italic, "rock with wings" or "winged rock") is a monadnock rising nearly above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Devils Tower and Shiprock are Religious places of the Indigenous peoples of North America, sacred mountains of the Americas and volcanic plugs of the United States.

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Signage

Signage is the design or use of signs and symbols to communicate a message.

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Siltstone

Siltstone, also known as aleurolite, is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of silt.

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Sioux

The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.

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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (South Dakota Mines, SD Mines, or SDSM&T) is a public university in Rapid City, South Dakota. Devils Tower and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology are Black Hills.

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Spearfish Formation

The Spearfish Formation is a geologic formation, originally described from the Black Hills region of South Dakota, United States, but also recognised in North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska.

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Sport climbing

Sport climbing (or bolted climbing) is a type of free climbing in rock climbing where the lead climber clips into pre-drilled permanent bolts for their protection while ascending a route.

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Sundance Formation

The Sundance Formation is a western North American sequence of Middle Jurassic to Upper Jurassic age Dating from the Bathonian to the Oxfordian, around 168-157 Ma, It is up to 100 metres thick and consists of marine shale, sandy shale, sandstone, and limestone deposited in the Sundance Sea, an inland sea that covered large parts of western North America during the Middle and early Late Jurassic.

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Sundance, Wyoming

Sundance (Lakota: Owíwaŋyaŋg Wačhí; "Sun-watching Dance") is a town in and the county seat of Crook County, Wyoming, United States. Devils Tower and Sundance, Wyoming are Black Hills.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Tipi

A tipi or tepee is a conical lodge tent that is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure, and historically made of animal hides or pelts or, in more recent generations, of canvas stretched on a framework of wooden poles.

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Tower Ladder (Devils Tower National Monument)

The Ladder at Devils Tower was first constructed and used in 1893 by William Rogers and Willard Ripley to publicly ascend Devil's Tower.

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Traditional climbing

Traditional climbing (or trad climbing) is a type of free climbing in rock climbing where the lead climber places the protection equipment while ascending the route; when the lead climber has completed the route, the second climber (or belayer) then removes the protection equipment as they climb the route.

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Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

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United States Board on Geographic Names

The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Wakan Tanka

In Lakota spirituality, Wakan Tanka (Standard Lakota Orthography: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka) is the term for the sacred or the divine.

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White-tailed deer

The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes.

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William F. Raynolds

William Franklin Raynolds (March 17, 1820 – October 18, 1894) was an American explorer, engineer and U.S. army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and American Civil War.

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Wooden Leg

Wooden Leg (Cheyenne Kâhamâxéveóhtáhe) (c. 1858–1940) was a Northern Cheyenne warrior who fought against Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer

Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer is a 1931 book by Thomas Bailey Marquis about the life of a Northern Cheyenne Indian, Wooden Leg, who fought in several historic battles between United States forces and the Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where he faced the troops of George Armstrong Custer.

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World Database on Protected Areas

The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the largest assembly of data on the world's terrestrial and marine protected areas, containing more than 260,000 protected areas as of August 2020, with records covering 245 countries and territories throughout the world.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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See also

1906 establishments in the United States

Archaeological sites in Wyoming

Columnar basalts of the United States

Devils Tower National Monument

Kiowa

Lakota mythology

Monoliths of the United States

National Park Service National Monuments in Wyoming

Natural history museums in Wyoming

Paleocene volcanism

Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming

Rock formations of Wyoming

Volcanic plugs of the United States

Volcanism of Wyoming

Volcanoes of Wyoming

Wyoming folklore

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower

Also known as Bear Lodge, Bear's Lodge, Devil's Tower, Devil's Tower National Monument, Devils Tower National Monument, Devils Tower National Monument (Wyoming), Devils Tower, WY, Devils Tower, Wyoming, George Hopkins (parachutist), Mato Tipila.

, Ogden Driskill, Old Headquarters Area Historic District, Paleocene, PBS, Phonolite, Piton, Pleiades, Porphyritic, Porphyry (geology), Prairie dog, Rapid City Journal, Raynolds Expedition, Redox, Richard Irving Dodge, Rocky Mountains, Sandstone, Scree, Sedimentary rock, Shale, Shiprock, Signage, Siltstone, Sioux, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Spearfish Formation, Sport climbing, Sundance Formation, Sundance, Wyoming, The New York Times, Theodore Roosevelt, Tipi, Tower Ladder (Devils Tower National Monument), Traditional climbing, Triassic, United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Congress, United States Geological Survey, Wakan Tanka, White-tailed deer, William F. Raynolds, Wooden Leg, Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer, World Database on Protected Areas, Wyoming.