Gutzon Borglum was born | | into a Mormon family and raised by his step-mother. |
Borglum's favorite medium for | | would be a better choice for the mountain. |
He did not finish his first large sculpture | | envisioned regional heroes for Mount Rushmore. |
The leaders in South Dakota first | | expressing himself was sculpture. |
Borglum told the leaders national heroes | | his son finished the Mount Rushmore figures. |
The presidents chosen were | | Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln. |
The model he made in preparation | | fourteen years and cost less than $1 million. |
The finished sculptures on Mount Rushmore | | did not include the bodies and arms. |
Calvin Collidge was the president | | at Stone Mountain in Georgia. |
When the face of Jefferson was unveiled | | was on a 1-to-12 inch scale. |
After Borglum's death | | President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in attendance. |
The carving on Mount Rushmore took | | when Borglum started the sculpture. |