On the way to North Dakota, we drove past Devils Tower - as featured in the movie Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. It is an impressive outcropping of rock; the only object of any height in the area, surrounded by flat fields.
Legend says the marks on the sides of the rock were made by a bear that was chasing after some young Indian girls. The girls had climbed up onto a rock to escape, and as the bear came nearer the rock rose up into the air, forming the tall peak seen today. The bear scrambled to climb the sides, gouging the rock with its claws. However the rock became too tall for it to climb, and the girls escaped.
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