An outsized replica of a statue of Crazy Horse, the Lakota Indian chief who wiped out Custer's men at Little Big Horn. When finished, it'll stretch 641 feet long, rise 563 feet tall, almost eight ...

High in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a monumental tribute to Native American heritage is taking shape, both in granite ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) -New tools are at work at Crazy Horse Memorial to help with the world’s largest mountain carving. A ...

A 1/34th scale model of what the Crazy Horse sculpture will look like, foreground, frames the actual carving in 2006. "He said, 'Go slowly so you do it right.' ...

Eccentric sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, profiled on "60 Minutes" in 1977, started carving a mountain into a 563-foot-high Crazy Horse statue in his late 30s.

Crazy Horse Memorial has progressed through a great many changes and stages of transformation since the June 3rd, 1948, dedication of the one-of-a-kind educational and humanitarian project.

In the 1940s, Jadwiga's father, Korczak Ziolkowski, was an award-winning sculptor working as an assistant on the carving of Mount Rushmore. He began the Crazy Horse project in 1948 and died in 1982.

Staff at the Crazy Horse Memorial make sure the story of the mountain and carving gets out to people all over the world. “Obviously the mountain is what attracts people here, and rightfully so.

Crazy Horse's head has been carved for about 12 years, and the big project now is to complete the gigantic horse that he is riding. The size of the project is hard to fathom.

One of my vacation goals is to see the monument of Native American chief Crazy Horse, which is being carved into a mountain of South Dakota's Black Hills and, when completed, will be larger than ...

Crazy Horse plans to announce the fund drive Oct. 7, said Fred Tully, development director. The goal is to raise $16.5 million over the first three to five years and then another $10 million, he said.