| 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. |