Synopsis

The following passage recounts the sixteen-year endeavor (1925-1941) to carve Mount Rushmore into the Black Hills of South Dakota, and profiles Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who conceived it. Borglum was sixty years old when the project was first proposed, and he passed away shortly after the final sculptures were completed. Throughout the undertaking, funding was frequently limited, and the granite from which the figures were sculpted proved brittle. Yet, Borglum persevered, guided by a remarkab