Editing Devils Tower (section)

==U.S. history==
Fur trappers may have visited Devils Tower, but they left no written evidence of having done so. The first documented non-Indigenous visitors were members of Captain [[William F. Raynolds]]'s 1859 [[Raynolds Expedition|expedition to Yellowstone]]. Sixteen years later, Colonel [[Richard Irving Dodge|Richard I. Dodge]] escorted an Office of Indian Affairs scientific survey party to the massive rock formation and coined the name Devils Tower.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dodge|first=Richard|title=The Black Hills journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge|year=1996|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=0-8061-2846-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ggv-JLih54AC|editor=Wayne R. Kime|page=6}}</ref> Recognizing its unique characteristics, the [[United States Congress]] designated the area a U.S. forest reserve in 1892 and in 1906 Devils Tower became the nation's first [[National monument (United States)|National monument]].<ref name="index">{{cite web|title=Listing of National Park System Areas by State |url=http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/nps/nps/part2.htm#deto |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=June 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629022806/http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/nps/nps/part2.htm |archive-date=June 29, 2011 }}</ref>