The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle — and to some, desecration. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived.

Each year, two million visitors walk or roll from the entrance of Mount Rushmore National Memorial ... 450,000 tons of stone from the Black Hills deserves recognition. Taliaferro says we like ...

“Hell, Indians are always telling me to blow up Mount Rushmore, but they know that’s not going to happen.” Sure, he says, the Black Hills were stolen from the Indians. “That’s a ...

Ziolkowski will go on to carve a monument to Crazy Horse on another mountain in the Black Hills. Mount Rushmore is the site of a climactic chase in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, North by Northwest.

The colossal sculpture on Mount Rushmore of four American presidents located in the Black Hills of South Dakota took nearly two decades to create.

To the Lakota, Mount Rushmore is the most visible scar on ... being conducted by some of the world’s top minds inside the Black Hills, and he wanted to find a way to show them that this place ...

Not only is this the best camping near Mount Rushmore, but it’s also ... If you plan to do a lot of hiking, pick up a Black ...

Not only is this the best camping near Mount Rushmore, but it’s also ... If you plan to do a lot of hiking, pick up a Black ...