Category: History - American
Foreword 1 The Mighty Works of Borglum 5 From the Beginning 9 The Role of the National Park Service 16 Wind Cave National Park 17 Badlands National Monument 17 Jewel Cave National Monument 17 Devils Tower National Monument 17 The Antiquity of Mount Rushmore 18 The Hall of Reco...
Foreword 1 The Mighty Works of Borglum 5 From the Beginning 9 The Role of the National Park Service 16 Wind Cave National Park 17 Badlands National Monument 17 Jewel Cave Nation...
2. Part 2The work of fitting the figures into the cracked granite upthrust called Mt. Rushmore has been a constant struggle between composition and finding solid stone for each of the fo...
3. Part 3“These steps of granite and cement will be provided with seats at intervals of every fifty feet; they will have a five inch rise and an eighteen inch tread. The ascension from t...
4. Part 4It was President Calvin Coolidge who said to Sculptor Gutzon Borglum that among the immortals to be carved upon Mount Rushmore a place must be found for Theodore Roosevelt, “bec...