Mt Rushmore was closed, but we enjoyed seeing the protestors. On horseback, no less.

Even the horses were protesting the closure

Four Guys

Four Guys and Three Girls

First Blast June 3, 1948 – 65 years later and this is how it looks:

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse Monument with Finished Sculpture

Crazy Horse never signed a treaty and  was stabbed in the back with a knife and killed under the white flag of truce at Camp Robinson in Nebraska

” The Government made many promises but they only kept but one, they promised to take   are land and they took it! ”

-Chief  Red Cloud

For 7 years, sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski worked single-handedly on the mountain, with a bunch of goats for company. Many days he climbed the 700+ stairs (which he had to build!) multiple times when his generator would go “kaput, kaput, kaput”….

The Little Generator That Could