Matthew Davis, author of a Mount Rushmore biography, explains how four presidents ended up on a mountain that was never meant to honor them. When I was driving cross-country about 20 years ago, I ...
As memorial marks 100 years, Gerard Baker, park’s Native American ex-superintendent believes if Rushmore’s story is told the right way, ‘people are going to be leaving pissed’ ...
Mount Rushmore, Keystone, South Dakota, USA It took around 14 years to build the four, gigantic presidential faces, with work beginning in 1927 and finishing in 1941. Great chunks of rock were blasted ...