Devils Tower National Monument
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Mountains, part of the Black Hills. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from summit to base. Devils Tower was the first United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.
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