“I think it’s a very prestigious thing to do,” a Nebraska woman visiting Mount Rushmore said ... This is a work of art, and I just don’t feel comfortable defacing it by changing it ...

However, the only experience any living person had with carving mountains into art was Borglum himself ... a number of techniques for sculpting Mount Rushmore were developed there.

He decides on Mount Rushmore as the best site. Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt are to be included in the sculptural program. October 1: Rushmore is dedicated. June 6: The Mount Rushmore ...