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Devils Tower was the first United States
National Monument. It became a monument on September 24, 1906. President
Theodore Roosevelt established the monument. Devils Tower is located in
eastern Wyoming. The tower is 1,280 feet tall. People enjoy rock climbing
the tower. The first person to reach the top was in 1875.
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| The monument was named by Colonel Richard Dodge. The Sioux tribe called it Mateo Tepee or Grizzly Bear Lodge. The tower was a worship site for the American Indians of the Plains tribe. |  |
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The Native American legend is that there
were seven girls playing, when they got chased by bears. They climbed
on a rock and it grew up into the sky. You can still see the claw marks
on the sides of the tower. The seven girls then became the constellation,
Pleiades.
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