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Bear Rock  Text only version  In the Black Hills in Crook
County, northeastern Wyoming, a large plug of volcanic rock
rises dramatically above the surrounding countryside. Now,
Devils Tower may seem a good name for this enormous plug of rock
but that’s just the name that the white men gave to it. The
people who had lived here for many thousands of years before the
arrival of the white men knew better. They knew rock had nothing
to do with the devil.  Indeed most of the tribes that lived in
that area had a very different name for the rock, they called it
the Bear Rock. Up and down its sheer sides are deep, long
streaks and gashes. Visitors often ask how they came to be there
and that is a very interesting story. Listen well and I will
tell you.  The story begins a long time ago, when two young
Sioux boys managed to get themselves lost in the prairie around
their homeland. They hadn’t mea