Most folks know Devils Tower from the Steven Spielberg move "Close Encounters of a Third Kind". Just like us, if you have seen the movie and you are in the area, you are drawn to visit the tower.
The Native Americans actually have a much better story about the tower than Spielberg. The Native Americans tell of seven small girls that are playing in the area when a large bear approaches. The girls run and jump on a rock to get away from the bear. The girls beg the rock to save them from the bear and the rock grows. As the rock grows taller and taller, the bear continues to claw at the rock in order to climb it to get the girls. The rock grows to the sky where the seven sisters are left to play together forever (hence the constellation Pleiades). The scratches from the bear are left in the rock forever.
The Native Americans actually have a much better story about the tower than Spielberg. The Native Americans tell of seven small girls that are playing in the area when a large bear approaches. The girls run and jump on a rock to get away from the bear. The girls beg the rock to save them from the bear and the rock grows. As the rock grows taller and taller, the bear continues to claw at the rock in order to climb it to get the girls. The rock grows to the sky where the seven sisters are left to play together forever (hence the constellation Pleiades). The scratches from the bear are left in the rock forever.
If you are looking for a close encounter, it will have to be with a prairie dog in the fields below Devils Tower.
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