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Crazy Horse Monument Aerial View in South Dakota

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Crazy Horse Memorial, home of the world’s largest mountain sculpture in progress, is in the Black Hills of South Dakota on U.S. Highway 16/385 just 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began the project in 1948 at [...]

8Apr2008 | Virtual Bird's Eye | 1 comment | Continued

Mt Rushmore in South Dakota Aerial View

Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as Six Grandfathers, the mountain was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer, during an expedition in 1885. At first, the project of carving Rushmore was undertaken to increase tourism in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. After long negotiations involving a Congressional delegation and [...]

7Apr2008 | Virtual Bird's Eye | 0 comments | Continued