Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — Devil's Tower a Landmark. [ARTICLE]

Devil's Tower a Landmark.

- The Devil’s tower is 32 miles by road from ’ Moorcroft, Wyo. This conspicuous mass of rock, flung up by some ancient earth cataclysm, rises 600 feet above a rounded ridge of sedimentary rocks, which itself rises 600 feet above the Belle Fourche river. It was useful to the aborigines as a landmark from which to direct their courses across the plains. Later on, the white pioneers of civilization In their exploration of the great Northwest also used it as a landmark. Still later the mlHtary wars in the Sioux and Crow Indian country during the Indian wars of the last century directed their marches by the aid of this ever-present tower; for it is visible in some directions for nearly a hundred miles. —Automobile Blue Book.