With this plan foiled by needing space for Lincoln's big old head, Borglum intended instead to place a grand room within the ...
Millions of visitors travel to South Dakota each year to admire Mount Rushmore, one of the most recognizable monuments in the ...
Matthew Davis is the author of “A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore,” which will be published in November. One hundred years after its initial dedication, Mount ...
Set in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore may be one of the United States’ most recognizable landmarks, but as author Matthew Davis explains in “A Biography of a Mountain – The Making and ...
The four presidential faces that make up Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota have become such a fixture of American visual culture, it’s hard to imagine that the monument might have ...
(Underwood & Underwood / Corbis) In the 1920s, despite the area’s atrocious roads, a fair number of adventurous travelers were visiting South Dakota’s Black Hills. But Doane Robinson, the official ...
MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. (WCSC) - Nearly 400 men and women began construction on the Mount Rushmore National Monument on this date 98 years ago. The work on the colossal monument in a ...