Devils Tower: Stories in Stone
Mary Alice Gunderson
Devils Tower National Monument, the first site designated a national monument
in 1906 has drawn to it fascinating people and spawned stories of mythic proportion. 
This is the only comprehensive history of the awesome rock tower and the people who have been drawn to it. Sitting Bull, Custer, photographer/artist team Jackson and Moran, climbers, adventures, eccentrics—they’re all here!
Chapters include Indian accounts of the landmark’s origin, geology, historic exploration, classic climbs, and media events.
“As we experience and contemplate Devils Tower—still,
even in the modern age, ‘an unfailing object of wonder’—each
of us must create for it our own private meaning. By bringing together in
these pages the stories of the native peoples and newcomers alike, Mary Alice
Gunderson has provided a richness of historical depth and cultural diversity
that helps us shape our perception of the grandeur of the place, situating
personal experience in the perspective of those who came here before us.
In that sense too, Devils Tower is a powerful link, not only between earth
and sky, but between present and past."
•• Raymond
J. Demallie, Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University
• 0-931271-09-6 • trade paper • index • 144 pp • photos • $9.95
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