![]() How come Tower got named differently than mentioned in history and legends? The story begins with a geologist, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, going on a scientific expedition to the Black Hills Region of Wyoming in 1875. The naming exercise was riddled with misinformation As wild bears inhabited the area in the past, the animals’ name became part of the tower’s identity. ![]() The Native American tribes have used several expressions like: Bear Lodge, Bear Lodge Butte, Grizzly ear’s Lodge, Mythic-owl mountain, Grey Horn Butte, and Ghost Mountain. Kiowa, another county, calls it ‘aloft on a rock’ and ‘tree rock’. In Arapahoe, the tower is called ‘Bear’s tipi’. Several word-of-mouth histories and references testify to its spiritual significance. Declared a National Monument of America in 1906, the tower was held sacrosanct by the Indian tribes of America’s Northern Plains. Its top surface measures an acre and a half, and base circumference – about a mile. Devils Tower in Wyoming: A national monument It is a mix of the physical and the metaphysical in Wyoming, America, near river Belle Fourche. But there is more to this giant stub, than what meets the eye on the silver screen. The location was a foothill called Devils Tower. The result was the blockbuster Hollywood release of 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And location became a new baseline, for an altogether new story. But the location found was so enticing that he discarded the script. ![]() ( Christen Gobel / Wikimedia Commons)Ī film script is a baseline on which location for the shoot is decided. ![]()
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