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1 online resource (660 pages) |
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Front Cover; Halftitle Page; Acknowledgement; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1. Doane Robinson's Dream; 2. "American History Shall March Along That Skyline!"; 3. Gutzon Borglum--"I Do Everything"; 4. Stone Mountain Shootout; 5. Search for a Carvable Cliff; 6. The Chosen Stone; 7. "The Statue of Washington Will Be Completed Within a Twelvemonth!"; 8. Where Often is Heard a Discouraging Word; 9. From Dream to Contract; 10. The Trout and the President Play; 11. "Were We Afraid? Of Course We Were Afraid!"; 12. Government Aid--Half a Loaf, But Better Than None. |
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13. Miners Who Carved a Mountain14. Dedication of Washington; 15. One of the Foxiest Men in the Senate; 16. Lincoln Borglum--Pointer Without Pay; 17. "Don't These Crazy People Know What I'm Doing For Them?"; 18. Borglum and Boland--The Gathering Storm; 19. No Tomahto Juice on the Mountain; 20. Tempest in the Entablature Teapot; 21. Borglum and Boland--Irresistible Force, Immovable Object; 22. "Two-By-Four Engineer, Brainless Jellybean"; 23. Dedication of Lincoln--No Room for Susan B. Anthony; 24. Borglum and Boland--Immovable Object Moved; 25. Borglum Takes Over the Mountain. |
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26. Government Takes it Back27. Last Days of Gutzon Borglum; 28. Shrine of Democracy--The Dream Fulfilled; Winning Essay, Entablature Contest, 1935; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
The first book to tell the complete story of Rushmore. The Carving of Mount Rushmore tells the complete story of the largest and certainly the most spectacular sculpture in existence. More than 60 black-and-white photographs offer unique views of this gargantuan effort, and author Rex Alan Smith and mdash;a man born and raised within sight of Rushmore and mdash;recounts with the sensitivity of a native son the ongoing struggles of sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his workers. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941.
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Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 (OCoLC)fst00117165
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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South Dakota -- Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
(OCoLC)fst01240532
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Rex Alan. Carving of Mount Rushmore. New York : Abbeville Press, ©2011 9781558596658 |
| ISBN |
9780789260086 (electronic bk.) |
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0789260085 (electronic bk.) |
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