The carving of Mount Rushmore
By: by Rex Alan Smith.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780896594173
Subjects: Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941.; Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 403-407.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Doane Robinson's dream; title: "American history shall march along that skyline!"; title: Gutzon Borglum : "I do everything"; title: Stone Mountain shootout; title: Search for a carvable cliff; title: The chosen stone; title: "The statue of Washington will be completed within a twelvemonth!"; title: Where often is heard a discouraging word; title: From dream to contract; title: The trout and the President play; title: "Were we afraid? Of course we were afraid!"; title: Government aid : half a loaf, but better than none; title: Miners who carved a mountain; title: Dedication of Washington; title: One of the foxiest men in the Senate; title: Lincoln Borglum : pointer without pay; title: "Don't these crazy people know what I'm doing for them?"; title: Borglum and Boland : the gathering storm; title: No tomahto juice on the mountain; title: Tempest in the entablature teapot; title: Borglum and Boland : irresistible force, immovable object; title: "Two-by-four engineer, brainless jellybean"; title: Dedication of Lincoln : no room for Susan B. Anthony; title: Borglum and Boland : immovable object moved; title: Borglum takes over the mountain; title: Government takes it back; title: Last days of Gutzon Borglum; title: Shrine of democracy : the dream fulfilled; title: Winning essay, entablature contest, 1935