CRAZY HORSE, S.D. – It had been nearly 40 years since I’d visited the Black Hills of South Dakota, a 5,000-square-mile mountain range rising in the middle of the Great Plains.

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The Black Hills of South Dakota are a land of breathtaking beauty and fierce meaning, a region where two colossal monuments—Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial—stand as rival storytellers.

The Crazy Horse Memorial has been in progress for decades and features a 70- foot visage of the legendary Lakota leader, as seen on June 17, 2021, in Black Hills, South Dakota.

CRAZY HORSE, S.D. – It was to be the largest sculpture in the world: a granite portrait of a Sioux leader on horseback whittled out of a mountain in the Black Hills here. In scale and complexity ...

CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, S.D. -- A new milestone has been accomplished on the Crazy Horse mountain carving in progress in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

What we see 1 -- Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1977; 2 -- a 16-ton plaster scale model (ratio of 1:134) of Chief Crazy Horse Mountain Sculpture, 1982; and 3 -- Mountain sculptor / engineer Korczak… ...

Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who started the Crazy Horse memorial in 1948, smokes a cigarette near a crate of dynamite on a bluff of the Black Hills in 1950. A 1/34th scale model of what the Crazy ...

Crazy Horse is staring down four presidents of the United States. I’ve boarded a battered yellow school bus that will bring tourists to the base of the mountain where the legendary Lakota leader ...