Robin Borglum Kennedy gives her portion of the lecture on her grandfather, Gutzon Borglum, at Marietta College on Saturday. (Photo by James Dobbs) MARIETTA — The McDonough Center Auditorium at ...

How Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor, was accused by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association of being a loafer, how his contract to carve the figures of Generals Lee, Jackson and their armies on Stone ...

John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum liked to tinker with his own legend, subtracting a few years from his age, changing the story of his parentage. The best archival research has revealed that he was born ...

Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor (TIME, Mar. 2), hurried along a stony path, mallet in hand. At his heels skulked one J. C. Tucker, accessory. Wrath was printed upon the Borglum countenance, sympathy ...

In late 1924, a rare opportunity presented itself to Gutzon Borglum. At the time, the American sculptor found himself on the verge of being fired from his job carving a Confederate monument into the ...

Miramont Castle in Manitou Springs is one of the Pikes Peak region’s great unsolved mysteries. Nobody is really sure how or ...

This 64-pound solid silver statue was stolen from the Houmas House Estate in Darrow, Louisiana, deputies say. It was created by sculptor Gustav Borglum who created Mount Rushmore, officials say.

In Biography of a Mountain, the journalist probes Mt. Rushmore’s fraught origins and mythic place in American history. Who were the key stakeholders in the creation of Mt. Rushmore, and who wasn’t at ...

Set in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore may be one of the United States’ most recognizable landmarks, but as author Matthew Davis explains in “A Biography of a Mountain – The Making and ...