Four hundred men—many of them miners—worked with sculptor Gutzon Borglum to chisel the faces of four U.S. presidents on Mount Rushmore using a combination of dynamite, jackhammers, and fine carving ...

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 ...

Matthew Davis, author of a Mount Rushmore biography, explains how four presidents ended up on a mountain that was never meant to honor them. When I was driving cross-country about 20 years ago, I ...