Complete guide to Mount Rushmore ... would give the work national significance. In 1939 Sioux Chief Henry Standing Bear invited sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to carve a memorial to the Sioux Nation.

October 1: Rushmore is dedicated. June 6: The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission ... because of the dangerous working conditions. Korczak Ziolkowski is hired as an assistant, but works ...

The creation of Mount Rushmore ... faces of Rushmore, in 1939 Sioux Chief Henry Standing Bear invited sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who worked briefly at Rushmore, to carve a memorial to the ...