The original detractors of the Mount Rushmore project might have a different view of it today due to its modern significance to the country. Mount Rushmore has become a landmark and is one of the most famous sites in the country.
The original detractors might have a different view of the Mount Rushmore project today because it created lots of fame and money.
Calvin Coolidge pushed Congress to authorize the Mt. Rushmore project in 1925.
President Coolidge signed the funding for the project.
The Alma project has been cancelled.
It would be very difficult and expensive to add any more faces to Mt. Rushmore. It would also be politically difficult to get authorization for the project even if the money and a sculptor could be found.
South Dakota State Historian Doane Robinson wrote a letter to Gutzon Borglum asking him to visit South Dakota so they could discuss the project. Borglum responded with a telegram that he was interested and would come visit. Doane Robinson and Gutzon Borglum met twice in the Black Hills. On the second trip, in 1925, Borglum found Mount Rushmore and knew that was the mountain he wanted to carve, no wheedling needed! Gutzon Borglum had been working on the Stone Mountain project in Georgia, but he was dismissed from that project which made him available for the Mount Rushmore project. More information and a copy of the first letter from Doane Robinson to Gutzon Borglum and a copy of Borglum's reply telegram can be found at the National Park Service's Mount Rushmore web site - see Related Links.
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The person who came up with the idea was Doane Robinson. He needed a sculptor to help him with his idea. he needed Gutzon Borglum. when Borglum started the project he had his son help his name was Lincoln Borglum. after Gutzon Borglum died the project went into the hands of his son. Mt. Rushmore was started in 1920 and was ended in 1940.
Gutzon Borglam designed and directed the sculpting of the giant presidents' heads on the side of Mt. Rushmore. In total, over 400 people worked on the project between 1929 and 1941. The project was subsidized by the US Government, and cost almost a million dollars. Gutzon, already a notable sculptor, was sometimes absent from the project. In his absence, his son Lincoln supervised it.
South Dakota State Historian Doane Robinson wrote a letter to Gutzon Borglum asking him to visit South Dakota so they could discuss the project. Borglum responded with a telegram that he was interested and would come visit. Doane Robinson and Gutzon Borglum met twice in the Black Hills. On the second trip, in 1925, Borglum found Mount Rushmore and knew that was the mountain he wanted to carve, no wheedling needed! Gutzon Borglum had been working on the Stone Mountain project in Georgia, but he was dismissed from that project which made him available for the Mount Rushmore project. More information and a copy of the first letter from Doane Robinson to Gutzon Borglum and a copy of Borglum's reply telegram can be found at the National Park Service's Mount Rushmore web site - see Related Links.
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