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| Bear Butte | The height of Mount Rushmore is 500 feet high and 400 feet wide . It is 5,000 feet above sea level . The presidents face's height is 60 feet . The width of one eye is 11 feet . The elevation is 7,242 feet . Each presidents head is as tall as a six story building and is also as tall as the Great Sphinx in Egypt . George Washington's nose is 20 feet long . The mouth is 18 feet wide . |
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Mount Rushmore is named after
Charles E. Rushmore . Charles E. Rushmore is a New York lawyer. He owned
the area for Mount Rushmore .
Doane Robinson had the idea for Mount Rushmore , but instead of the 4 presidents he pictured western figures . The western figures he pictured were General Custer , Buffalo Bill , Lewis and Clark , and legendary Sioux Warriors . He wanted them to be located in the Needles . Burglum wouldn't do it because he demanded that instead of western figures he would do a portrait bust of the first 150 years of America |
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| Home | Mount Rushmore is a large portrait bust and stands for the first 150 years of America. There are 4 presidents named George Washington ,Thomas Jefferson , Abraham Lincoln , Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1927 and 1941 Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the 60 foot bust of the 4 presidents. George Washington was chosen because he was the father of our country. Thomas Jefferson was chosen because he wrote the Declaration of Independence . Theodore Roosevelt was chosen because he saw to completion of the Panama Canal linking the oceans and opening the connecting the waters of the East and West. Abraham Lincoln was selected because he was preserving the Union through American's darkest hours of freedom. Mount Rushmore is located 23 miles from Rapid City. | . |
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Gutzon Burglum starting to carve Mount Rushmore when he was 60 years old . Gutzon Burglum said in 1939, '' you may as well drop a letter in the world's postal service without an address or signature , as to send that carved mountain into history without identification .'' Burglum dreamed of putting in a description of the USA 1776 to 1906 (Washington to Roosevelt). It would've been 80 ft. to 20 ft. in the shape of the Louisiana Purchase . It didn't work because it was not large enough to read and the space was for Lincoln . Since this failed he decided to build a Hall of Records . It would hold the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution .Work took place on July 1938 through 1939 .Work stopped when Gutzon Burglum died . It all stopped on Halloween 1941. Burglum's dream was partly fulfilled when they put in a teakwood box that was full of records that was placed in the floor of the hall entry . | |
