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