South Dakota Journal Entry

Driving through South Dakota...

 


The Corn Palace

Toward sundown, we headed into Badlands National Park, where we spent the night

The next day we first went to Mount Rushmore

State Flags View from the terrace With People Without People
Just George Now without George With Nicole This is the model. You can see the monument through the window on the left.

Mount Rushmore memorializes the birth, growth, preservation and development of the United States of America. Between 1927 and 1941, Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the 60-foot busts of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln to represent the first 150 years of American history. The design was readjusted several times. The original design was to have the figures carved to the waist, but the figures were left as they are today when Borglum died.

Then we went to the Crazy Horse Monument

There is an interpretive center It features many Indian artifacts from various tribes One side of the model the other side of the model and this is the monument so far

When asked "where are your lands now?" Crazy Horse pointed and said: "My lands are where my dead lie buried." Crazy Horse Memorial is a nonprofit cultural and educational humanitarian project dedicated to the Native Americans of North America. The original sculptor, Korczak Ziolkowski, was an assistant to Guzton Borglum on the Mount Rushmore sculpture. Work actually began in 1948 and continues to this day.