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Box office. $306.9 million [ 4] Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It is the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life ...
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge) [8] is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from ...
Old Headquarters Area Historic District. / 44.59056°N 104.72028°W / 44.59056; -104.72028. The Old Headquarters Area at Devils Tower National Monument includes three structures and their surroundings, including the old headquarters building, the custodian's house, and the fire hose house. The buildings are all designed in the National ...
The Durrance Route is a climbing route on Devils Tower in Wyoming, United States. First pioneered by Jack Durrance and Harrison Butterworth in September 1938, it was the second free ascent of Devils Tower, following the first ascent led by Fritz Wiessner in 1937. The Wiessner Route lies a few hundred feet to the right of the Durrance Route and ...
Tower Ladder (Devils Tower National Monument) / 44.58972°N 104.71389°W / 44.58972; -104.71389. The Ladder at Devils Tower was first constructed and used in 1893 by William Rogers and Willard Ripley to publicly ascend Devil's Tower. Two years later Roger's wife Linnie ascended the tower via the ladder, one of a total of about 215 who ...
Wyoming. The Bear Lodge Mountains ( Lakota: Mato Tipila) are a small mountain range in Crook County, Wyoming. [ 2] These mountains are protected in the Black Hills National Forest as part of its Bearlodge District. Devils Tower National Monument was the first U.S. National Monument and draws about 400,000 visitors per year to the area.
Tennessee: Bell Witch Cave. The legend of the Bell Witch is one of Tennessee's most infamous horror stories. In the early 19th century, John Bell and his family were tormented by a malicious ...
Belle Fourche River. Coordinates: 44°26′00″N 102°18′11″W. A view of the upper course of the Belle Fourche River in Devils Tower National Monument. Course and watershed of the Belle Fourche River. The Belle Fourche River (pronounced bel FOOSH; Lakota: Šahíyela Wakpá[ 1]) is a tributary of the Cheyenne River, approximately 290 miles ...