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In 2002, America Experience held a competition asking viewers to send in their own inscriptions for Mount Rushmore.
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Plenty of "expedient exaggerations" surrounded the filming of scenes for Hitchcock's acclaimed thriller North by Northwest at Mount Rushmore in 1958.
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In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota for a summer away from Washington, D.C.
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The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived.
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Where in South Dakota, Borglum wondered, do you find a whole crew of workmen who know how to carve a mountain into work of art?
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Senator Peter Norbeck was Mount Rushmore's great political patron and helped raise almost a million dollars for the project.
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Though Gutzon Borglum was its creator, Doane Robinson was the man who first conceived of Mount Rushmore.
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In 1901, Mary Borglum and a classmate were the first two women to earn doctorates at Berlin, and The New York Times commented at the time that she was "probably the most accomplished woman in the world."
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He was named after his father's favorite president, Abraham Lincon, who, probably not coincidentally, was the subject of the work that made Gutzon's national reputation as a sculptor.
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The Borglums traveled to Paris to work and study, and there Gutzon met sculptor Auguste Rodin.
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Before he created Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum already had a productive and successful career as an artist.
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The Governor of South Dakota signed the Mount Harney bill, allowing for the carving of a monument in Custer State Park in 1925.
