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Have you ever wondered how Mount Rushmore was made? How it was made? Mount Rushmore was made by Gutzon Borglum and about 800 workers from 1927 to 1941, an incredible 14 years. Mount Rushmore was made not only to honor great American presidents but also to attract tourist to Black Hills, South Dakota. You are probably thinking that it must have been tiring to be drilling holes and blowing up rocks for 14 years but actually out off the 14 years they were making Mount Rushmore they were only **working** for 6 years! Like I said Before Mount Rushmore was made mostly by drills, hammers and dynamite. The dynamite helped because about half of the workers used to be miners.



Most people think that Mount Rushmore is a big Mountain with 4 guys heads on it, but there wrong. A man named Doane Robinson had the idea to honor American explores such as Buffalo Bill and Lewis and Clark. He called Sculptor Gutzon Borglum but when Gutzon Borglum got to South Dakota he did not like the needless area and said that it should not be American explorers it should be American President s instead Gutzon Borglum chose George Washington, Abe Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. Everybody agreed with those decisions. They agreed with Abe Lincoln because he ended slavery and believed one person is as equal as the next. They agreed with George Washington because his role in the revolutionary war and also for fighting for Americans freedom. They chose Thomas Jefferson because he thought people should be allowed to govern themselves. The last decision was Teddy Roosevelt. Gutzon Borglum was a friend of Teddy and most people believed that Gutzon was just sad because Teddy had died eight years earlier at the age 61.

The year is 1941, the date is October 1st .Mount Rushmore has been completed. Now let’s go 70 years later we have had president like Barack Obama and Ronald Regan there’s probably one question on your mind, are they going on Mount Rushmore? The government has no plans to add any president to Mount Rushmore, but many people have requested Barack Obama, Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Regan. Mount Rushmore has appeared in many movies,TV series and comics such as the Simpsons and Phines and Ferb.

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Wikipedia:Info and Pictures Ask.com: Info NCSU.edu: Info Mount Rushmore By Laura Hahn: Info OhRanger.com: Info