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Legends aside, Devils tower is actually the remnant of a volcanic extrusion that occurred 60-70 million years ago. Rising some 1,200 feet above the nearby Belle Fourche River, the tower was first seen by explorers during a U.S. Geological Survey in 1875. The surveyors called the rock Devils Tower after an old Indian name, The Bad God's Tower. Colonel Richard I. Dodge, commander of the military escort, described it in the following year as "one of the most remarkable peaks in this or any country."

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