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Of course, tribes of the First Peoples (slipping back to a little Canadian, eh) knew of Bears Lodge long before its “discovery” by European-Americans. Most tribes that lived in or near the Black Hills had individual oral histories about the …

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What is Devils Tower? Setting the Stage. Most of the landscape surrounding Devils Tower is composed of sedimentary rocks. Even with no prior knowledge, if you’ve been reading this or my first recounting of my travels through the western U …

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As I’ve written in other pages on this site, while I engage in research before I leave to visit a place then typically supplement it with more reading after my return, the goal of that research is to enrich my …