Every year about two million people visit Mount Rushmore, where the faces of
four U.S. presidents were carved in granite by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his son, the
late Lincoln Borglum. The creation of Mount Rushmore monument took 14 years – from
1927 to 1941- and nearly a million dollars. These were times when money was difficult to
come by and many people were jobless. To move the more than 400,000 tons of rock,
Borglum hired laid-off workers from the closed- down mines in the Black Hills area. He
taught these men to dynamite, drill, carve, and finish the granite as they were hanging in
midair in hisspecially devised chairs, which had many safety features. Borglum was proud
of the fact that no workers were killed or severely injured during the years of blasting and
carving.
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