Mount Rushmore wasn’t really his idea. Robinson conceived the original concept in a bid to boost tourism. As it sits in the ...

(Underwood & Underwood / Corbis) In the 1920s, despite the area’s atrocious roads, a fair number of adventurous travelers were visiting South Dakota’s Black Hills. But Doane Robinson, the official ...

An Italian immigrant artist who helped shape the Mount Rushmore National Memorial lived most of his adult life in Westchester. Born in 1892, Luigi Del Bianco began wood carving as a boy in Meduno, ...

Hundreds of men spent thousands of man hours spent just over 14 years carving Mount Rushmore National Memorial. The figure of George Washington was finished first - nearly three years into the ...

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