Sioux Indian Chief Henry Standing Bear ... He envisioned the whole of Thunderbird Mountain as a gargantuan likeness of Crazy Horse, and he had already decided that he would keep working on it for as ...
Ziolkowski personally bought a mountain top with a granite ridge and financed the entire project privately. The statue, envisioned as a freestanding sculpture of the great Sioux chief Crazy Horse ...
It was commissioned in 1939 by Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear to honor his cousin, Chief Crazy Horse, killed in 1877 ... on to become the world's largest mountain carving. While people usually ...