One pouncing prairie dog! One ropeless rock climber! One angry chief! One close encounters! And hundreds of reasons to run! Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa travel to Wyoming's Devils Tower and climb into a "towering" mystery involving Native Americans, dinosaur fossils, precocious prairie dogs, fascinating footprints, Unidentified Flying Objects, and... gulp... aliens???

LOOK what's inside this mystery - people, places, history and more!PLACES: Devils Tower, Wyoming: Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Thermopolis  Devils Tower  Prairie Dog Town  Circle of Sacred Smoke  Devils Tower Trading Post.

PEOPLE: Theodore Roosevelt  Col. Richard Dodge  George Hopkins, Daredevil  Junkyu Mato, sculptor.

NATURE AND SCIENCE: Dinosaurs: Allosaurus  Tyrannosaurus Rex  Archaeoptryx  "trackway"  Fossils. Wyoming: Geography  Weather  Animal Life: deer, bears, Prairie dogs and bats  Plant Life: Lichen  Dinosaur fossils. UFO - Unidentified Flying Objects.

HISTORY AND CULTURE: Devils Tower: Other names: Mato Tipila - Bears lodge  Facts: Height and geology  History  1st National Monument  Sacred site for over 20 Indian tribes  The Lakota Tribe and The Sioux Nation: Teepee's  Prayer cloths  Indian Legend about Devils Tower - Bear Legend and Gold Legend.

This mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, scavenger hunt and activities. This Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level and a Developmental Reading Assessment level.

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