Mt. Rushmore

From an article in today's Rapid City Journal about the Rushmore Society:

Even today, Doan Robinson's original idea seems like a crazy long shot: Spur the Black Hills' young tourism industry into a full gallop by inviting a well-known sculptor to the Black Hills to carve giant figures.

In fact, for a number of environmental, cultural and aesthetic reasons, Mount Rushmore would be dead on arrival if the idea was proposed today.

But in 1923, Robinson, South Dakota's state historian, had been reading about the Stone Mountain carving in Georgia. He believed a project like that would work here.