It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum\'s dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota.
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Yet Mount Rushmore now draws almost three million visitors to the Black Hills every year.
Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving carried out through the years of the Great Depression when funding for anything was hard to come by.
Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so.
It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum\'s dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota