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50cts de Francs la baguette🗼Paris 1952

Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, architect, working on a draft for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 1937.

Photo by Keystone

It was state historian Doane Robinson who first had the idea for a mammoth national monument in the region, but its eventual design was the brainchild of sculptor Gutzon Borglum. Borglum is pictured here in his local studio with an early model of the landmark.

Mount Rushmore and the surrounding Black Hills (Pahá Sápa) are considered sacred by Plains Indians such as the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Lakota Sioux, who used the area for centuries as a place to pray and gather food, building materials, and medicine. The Lakota called the mountain "Six Grandfathers" (Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe), symbolizing ancestral deities personified as the six directions: north, south, east, west, above (sky), and below (earth). In the latter half of the 19th century, expansion by the United States into the Black Hills led to the Sioux Wars. In the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, the U.S. government granted exclusive use of all of the Black Hills, including Six Grandfathers, to the Sioux in perpetuity.

Love how they used just a side view of the creek to minimize this. This is what the whole area looks like:

Here’s aerial footage:

https://twitter.com/NebPubMediaNews/status/1601676294638690304

Oh, and by the way, they said “barrels” because that sounds smaller since that’s over 500,000 gallons.

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