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Doane Robinson
had the idea that someone should carve a mountain. He talked to Gutzon
Borglum. Borglum was a sculptor working in Georgia. Robinson asked him
to come and carve a statue in the Black Hills. Borglum agreed. He and
his family moved to Keystone in 1925. He carved the faces of four
presidents on Mount Rushmore. They are George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. You can see Borglum
in the picture of Lincoln’s head. He is in a sling below the president’s
eye. Borglum died in 1941. Today many tourists come to see Mount
Rushmore. It is a national memorial. |
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Photo courtesy of South Dakota State Historical Society |
