Mount Rushmore Timeline
If South Dakota State Historian Duane Robinson had his way, there might never have been a Mount Rushmore. Robinson, in an effort to boost tourism, wanted to launch a project, carving giant portraits of American West heroes into large granite spires known as The Needles, just miles from where Mount Rushmore is today. But Danish-American sculptor Gutzon Borglum, later hired to carve the presidential sculptures, told Robinson the spires were not suitable for large-scale carvings and the project was reconsidered and moved to the present Mount Rushmore site. Tune in as the Smithsonian Channel presents the timeline of one of America’s iconic attractions.
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