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** served as a landmark for 19th century western settlers, some of whom carved their names on the rock and some of which are still visible | ** served as a landmark for 19th century western settlers, some of whom carved their names on the rock and some of which are still visible | ||
* ''' | * '''Devil's Tower''' (Wyoming) | ||
** a butte formation in Wyoming that abruptly juts out of the landscape | [[File:Devils Tower Darton 1900.jpg|thumb||200px|Devils Tower, 1900 (wiki)]] | ||
** a butte formation in Wyoming that abruptly juts out of the landscape 1,267 ft high | |||
** the name comes from an English misinterpretation of the Native American name for it | |||
*** the native name is "bear's house" (among others) and was understood in English by a US Army expedition leader as "Bad God's Tower," thus "Devil's Tower" | |||
*** a Native American legend of its origin is that young girls where chased by bears, and their prayers for salvation were answered by the "Great Spirit" by lifting the rock they sat upon into the air, out of reach from the bears, whose claws scratched marks into the sides of the rock while trying to reach them. | |||
* See [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower Devil's Tower (wiki)]] | |||
=== Earthquakes === | === Earthquakes === | ||