The 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind features Devils Tower National Monument. Encounters of a different kind have been occurring there for millennia, as a sacred site of American Indian communities for generations. The Lakota people know it as Mato Tipila, or Bears Lodge, a holy site. They regularly make pilgrimages there, where they perform rituals and leave offerings.
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Devils Tower WY Soon I'll be traveling back to Wyoming to start working on a uranium exploration project not far from Devils Tower. Excited about being back in the West. 📷 Canon EOS 500D #photography #landscapephotography #digitalphotography #canon #dslr #devilstower #wyoming

Devils Tower wearing a perfect halo.
A single flight path carved a clean arc across the Wyoming sky that morning — one of those rare intersections of nature and geometry you only see once.

Printed large, the curve becomes almost sculptural.
DM for limited-edition metal prints.
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Devils Tower, 2009
This summer road trip was mainly about climbing, but I always packed my camera. We climbed a great route on the Tower, and I took this shot the next day. It’s not perfect, but it marks the moment when photography started to take hold.

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Still summer 2009. 10,000 miles across the western US in just seven weeks — a wild mix of discovery, climbing, hiking… and photography. Most of the pictures weren’t that great, but this road trip gave me the spark. A camera in hand, a car, and a tent — it was the perfect starting point.

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📜 New Substack Drop:
Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
Four poems for four moments in American myth—
💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/gold-stone-diamond-and-ink

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Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink

Four American Moments — September 24 in Poetry

Eshu’s Substack

📜 This Day in History – September 24, 1906

Teddy Roosevelt designated Devils Tower as the first U.S. National Monument.
A big rock. A bold move. A love letter to the wild.

You made Trudeau proud, Teddy—
with your jaw set firm, your laugh so heady.
But most of all, you made us see
the wild was worth its sanctity.

The first of many marks you made—
a monument to what won’t fade.

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