With this plan foiled by needing space for Lincoln's big old head, Borglum intended instead to place a grand room within the ...

Mount Rushmore is an American icon: Its majestic, 60-foot-tall carved presidential heads, overlooking South Dakota’s Black Hills, have been immortalized in cinema and remain a bucket-list destination ...

(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 ...

Hundreds of people were vital to the carving of Mount Rushmore, from those who raised money to those who wielded jackhammers. But if only four people had to be selected as most important to the ...

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 ...

Hundreds of men spent thousands of man hours spent just over 14 years carving Mount Rushmore National Memorial. The figure of George Washington was finished first - nearly three years into the ...

A trail leads to the base of Mount Rushmore, which provides a closer look at the carvings. Chadd Cripe ccripe@idahostatesman.com It’s no secret that President Donald Trump would love to see his face ...

An Italian immigrant artist who helped shape the Mount Rushmore National Memorial lived most of his adult life in Westchester. Born in 1892, Luigi Del Bianco began wood carving as a boy in Meduno, ...

Is Mount Rushmore National Memorial worth visiting? Yes! Make sure to see the evening program with the short film titled "Freedom, America's Lasting Legacy". Before the program even starts, you are ...