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Mount Rushmore is one of the most famous sights of the United States, which consists of the faces of four former presidents carved into a mountainside. The memorial is named after Charles E. Rushmore, a New York attorney.
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The men behind Mount Rushmore were historian Duane Robinson and stonemason Gutzon Borglum. Robinson's original idea was not to carve heads, but full, standing images of Jim Bridger and other American frontier men. He suggested this to Gutzon Borglum, who designed the Stone Mountain sculpture in Georgia. He really liked the idea of a huge monument, but the design didn't appeal to him.
Borglum came up with an alternative to carving huge faces of former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Robinson thought this was a good idea, and so did the federal government, which transferred the money to start the project in 1927. Borglum spent 6.5 years working on the seventy meter high faces in the granite rock wall. In 1941, however, he died in the final phase of the project. His son Lincoln later finished the work.
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