Where is Mount Rushmore?
"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. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so. Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving carri...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint pf Penguin Group (USA) LLC,
[2015]
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| Summary: | "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. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so. 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. Yet Mount Rushmore now draws almost three million visitors to the Black Hills every year. This is an entertaining chronicle of one man's magnificent obsession, which even today sparks controversy"--Amazon. |
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| Physical Description: | 108 pages : illustrations, maps (some color, 1 folded) ; 20 cm. |
| Audience: | Ages 8-12. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780606365895 0606365893 9780448483566 0448483564 9781480678484 1480678481 9781484447987 1484447980 |
| Author Notes: | True Kelley is a children's author and illustrator. She has a fun-filled watercolor style which includes several in the Let's -Read and Find -Out series. She has also worked on What Makes a Magnet and What the Moon is Like. Her title's include Who was Leonardo da Vinci?, Who was George Washington?, Who was Abigail Adams?, and Buggly Bear's Hiccup Cure. (Bowker Author Biography) |
