June 6: The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission is created. Rapid City mayor John Boland is named president of the Commission's executive committee. Workers carving the Jefferson head ...

Even before Donald Trump became president, he longed to have his face carved into Mount Rushmore. Now, he might get that chance. On Jan. 28, Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna introduced legislation ...

However, the only experience any living person had with carving mountains into art was ... a number of techniques for sculpting Mount Rushmore were developed there. The infrastructure needed ...

I think that we can perhaps meditate a little on those Americans ten thousand years from now , and I think they will still be ...

Though the artist passed away before the monument’s completion ... over the 500-foot face of the mountain — yet there were no fatalities during the carving, only a couple of minor injuries. Read more ...