August: Borglum arrives in South Dakota and declares that he will carve a mountain, not the Needles. He decides on Mount Rushmore as the best site. Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt are to ...

Planning a camping trip to the Black Hills that includes a visit to the famous Mount Rushmore monument in South Dakota?

The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story ... (Some of the area in which Rushmore stands was eventually purchased by the state of South Dakota and developed as Custer State Park; the rest was ...