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 ...

34.The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in US history, resulting in the deaths of over ...

How Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor, was accused by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association of being a loafer, how his contract to carve the figures of Generals Lee, Jackson and their armies on ...

Dedicated 75 years ago this month, Mount Rushmore was intended by its creator, Gutzon Borglum, to be a celebration of not only these four presidents but also the nation’s unprecedented greatness.

Despite the rain and cold weather Monday morning, the Kiwanis Club of Marietta gathered with members of the community to ...

James Lincoln de la Mothe Borglum, called Lincoln, was the first child of Gutzon Borglum and his second wife Mary, born on April 9, 1912. He was named after his father's favorite president ...

Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941) is best known as the artist commissioned to sculpt the national monument at Mount Rushmore. He worked on the Mount Rushmore sculpture from 1927 until his death in 1941 (the ...

In the Black Hills of South Dakota, less than a half-hour drive down the road from Mount Rushmore, just 17 miles away, another colossal mountain sculpture—the largest sculptural project in history—is ...