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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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Main Author: Kelley, True (Author)
Other Authors: Hinderliter, John (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint pf Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015]
Series:Where is (Grosset & Dunlap)
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.) > Juvenile nonfiction.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.) > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
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In 1924, the world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his thirteen-year-old son took a trip together out west. They left their home in Connecticut and, days later, got off a train in Rapid City, South Dakota. Only about six thousand people lived in Rapid City. South Dakota had been a state for only thirty-five years. The Borglums felt they were in the middle of nowhere. They actually were smack-dab in the center of the United States. Excerpted from Where Is Mount Rushmore? by True Kelley All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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