Devils Tower National Monument, the first U.S. national monument, established in 1906 in northeastern Wyoming, near the Belle Fourche River.
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Mondell was a member and later chairman of the House Committee on Public Lands. Due in large part to the influence of Mondell, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower as the first national monument on September 24, 1906.
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The first national monument to be established under provisions of the Antiquities Act was proclaimed by President Theodore Roosevelt on September 24, 1906. It was created to protect Devils Tower, well-known geological formation in Crook County, Wyoming.
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The first recorded ascent was in 1893, when two local ranchers pulled themselves up on a ladder of wooden pegs driven into the cracks. It wasn't until 1937, however, that Fritz Wiessner, placing just one piton on the whole route, made the first free ascent of Devils Tower.
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