Tells the story of how Mount Rushmore, a gigantic sculpture of four American presidents in South Dakota, was conceived, developed, worked, and realized, and includes a chronology, glossary, and resources.
Simple text and photographs discuss the design and carving of Mount Rushmore, how the monument is taken care of, and its role as a tourist destination, with a comparison of the project to the Crazy Horse Memorial.
Tells the story of sculptor Gutzon Borglum's creation of Mount Rushmore in simple text, describing its long construction by nearly four hundred workers, the size of its sculpted faces, and the reasons Borglum chose the four presidents it depicts.
With the aid of the magic spyglass, Mattie, Alex, and Sophie Chapman are transported to Mount Rushmore during its construction and help save the face of Thomas Jefferson. Includes facts about the monument and directions for making a pulley-drawn cable.
A biography of the sculptor who devoted the last fourteen years of his life to the carving of the four presidents' heads on the face of Mount Rushmore.
