Show X jT O g S Nearby earby and Y Yonder onder b 0 Br as T. T T. T MAXEY lc hr Devils Devil's Devil Lake D S IJ l the Uie the great gront salt Mil lake Ike of ot North orth Dakota the largest bou body of fit water witter between Let the great groat lakes and lint IM thi ls It about thirty miles tulles long front from three throe to eti wiltS miles wide II lid In places from se uty seu-uty to 10 feet teet deep derl sU believe hellen that this peculiar location for such lIuch n a lake hIke lies lIet In to the tin fact that an on ancient river valley he- he came lUrue partially with drift lt leaving a u II submerged ruck rock t urea area whit which lifted with water forming this lake lukl Its source being In III saline springs n accounts fop tor the saltiness FI of Jt ti th the water Tim The Indians being FU suspicious jf of J this water cr called 1 a t 1 c i. i i u meaning inclining evil ll e I 11 This lake III was 41 the tile scene of a tragic t lah lu frontier days dus between the Culled Slates under cutler 1 of or Sull Sully mid and the till in during I II h the tile latter were eif defeated d cud and n lute lUlu the tile lake Sully's park on the southern SIlO shore I of the tile lake wits was t fished It'd to Sully's Sallys victory The url Port rotten Totten In Indian Jutt re res a I Is nl Ills also o 1 located here Many hills or II faou which countless relic relles hUH hove been t ala n for and collections surround this lake That the h surface of the Inke laire has hits bees been uhl lj higher than It Isnow U Is now Is elii l II by j waste wale smocks marks on trees Ires That it H uL o been much Io lower than It Is at sot priM present Is attested d lJ by trees which are submerged In It It During recent years yi-ur the tile difference between high and low stages hu has averaged o about four foul feet G 1 4 S. S 1927 1827 11 IrD N. N Union |