South Dakota is famously home to Mount Rushmore, but it’s also been making room for a second colossal mountain carving that, when finished, will dwarf the four presidents.
The sculpture in progress is of the Lakota warrior Chief Crazy Horse astride a stallion with his arm and pointed hand stretched out over the horse’s mane. It’s taking awhile. The Crazy Horse Memorial — taller than the Washington Monument and well over two football fields wide — has been 64 years in the making. And problems in the underlying rock are now forcing the sculptors to deviate from the original model.
Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began the project 1948.