Mount Rushmore hides a secret room few people know about. Behind Abraham Lincoln’s carved face sits an unfinished chamber cut ...

About 30 minutes from Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain carving in progress of Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. The memorial includes The Indian Museum of North America ...

Crazy Horse Memorial has always been a complement to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Consider, South Dakota historian Doane Robinson conceived of the idea of carving famous Americans on Mount ...

The Crazy Horse Memorial is under construction on private land and funded through private donations. It’s sculptor has refused federal funds to finish the project.

Unlike Rushmore, which was finished in 14 years (just six of those actually spent on carving), Crazy Horse remains a work in progress after more than six decades of work.

The carving is of Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, who is riding his horse while pointing to his tribal land. The carving is four times larger than the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Like everyone who visits Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the obvious question forms in my mind. “When will this massive, ambitious carving be finished?” The Native ...

But Rushmore’s duality still feels simpler than the layers of significance and controversy around the monument to Crazy Horse.

John R. Beyer and wife, Laureen, visit the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota to experience the construction that has been ongoing for more than 73 years.