Writer M. Scott Momaday once waxed poetic about Devils Tower, proclaiming "There are things in nature that engender an awful quiet in the heart of man." President Theodore Roosevelt showed his love of preservation (and an economy of words) when he declared this "lofty and isolated rock" a national monument 100 years ago. Thirty years ago, Steven Spielberg celebrated the monument's otherworldly appeal by choosing Devils Tower as the UFO landing site in his movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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The Wyoming we see today was sculpted in the blink of an eye, geologically speaking. The landscape is the result of an erosive process triggered by a massive uplift of the western part of the North American continent. All of this has taken place within the past three million years.
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