rushmore
8 articles on rushmore.
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Doane Robinson and the Idea That Became Mount Rushmore
The South Dakota state historian whose 1923 tourism idea set the carving of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills near Rapid City in motion.
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Gutzon Borglum: The Sculptor of Mount Rushmore
How the restless sculptor Gutzon Borglum chose a Black Hills cliff near Rapid City and four presidents for the carving that became Mount Rushmore.
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The Workers Who Carved Mount Rushmore
The drillers, powdermen, and call boys who did the dangerous labor on the Black Hills cliff that became Mount Rushmore, near Rapid City.
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The Hall of Records: Mount Rushmore's Unfinished Vault
Gutzon Borglum's planned chamber behind the Mount Rushmore faces, meant to hold the nation's founding documents, near Rapid City in the Black Hills.
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Why Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt?
The reasoning behind the four faces on Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills near Rapid City, and the eras of American life each president was chosen to mark.
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Lincoln Borglum and the Completion of Mount Rushmore
After Gutzon Borglum's death in 1941, his son Lincoln finished the carving of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills near Rapid City.
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The Mount Rushmore Evening Lighting Ceremony
For decades a summer night ritual has lit the faces at Mount Rushmore and honored veterans, a quiet tradition close to Rapid City and the Black Hills.
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Calvin Coolidge's 1927 Summer White House in the Black Hills
In 1927 President Coolidge spent a long summer in the Black Hills near Rapid City, running the country from a state lodge and lending his weight to Mount Rushmore.