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 ...

Complete guide to Mount ... South Dakota in 1924 and surveyed the area for a perfect location. He felt that Needles was too weathered and would not support a grand sculpture. He felt that ...

Area 51, located in Southern Nevada is one of the most mysterious and controversial places on the planet. Conspiracies ...

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 ...