John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum liked to tinker with his own legend, subtracting a few years from his age, changing the story of his parentage. The best archival research has revealed that he was ...

A specialist in immensity, a modeler of monuments out of mountains, Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is doubtless pleased to reflect that his name will last as long as the hills on which he has carved his ...

Despite initial plans for federal funding, sculptor Gutzon Borglum opted for a combination of public and private financing, a decision that would later pose challenges. With the onset of the Great ...

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In 1901, traveling to New York from Berlin by boat, she met a fellow passenger named Gutzon Broglum, who had been working in Paris. Mary was seven years younger than Borglum (who was married at ...

Sherman was a general in the Union army. Gutzon Borglum and a superintendent inspect work on Mount Rushmore in 1932. Construction on Mount Rushmore stopped in 1941. The sculptures were originally ...

In August 2024, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that Trump's predecessor Joe Biden could be added to Mount ...

Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has introduced a bill to carve President Donald Trump’s likeness onto Mount Rushmore, ...

If there’s room up there, I think it’d be great,” Trump loyalists on Fox News chimed in after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna wrote, ...

However, Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor he persuaded to consider the undertaking told him the eroded rocks were not suitable for sculpting. The second location was much more to his liking given its ...