SET IN STONE
In the Black Hills of South Dakota you can roll between two of the largest sculpted mountains on the face of the Earth. Mt. Rushmore, of course, is your old friend from elementary school, and you think you know it well. It makes a startling difference, seeing a sculpture in three dimensions after you've gotten to know it in two - especially when that sculpture tops a 450-foot mountain. And it may be just as startling to learn that the man who made it spent most of his 50s as a mover and shaker in the Ku Klux Klan. Some17 miles southwest of those faces the mountain has a face -- a face nine stories high. This sculpture shows the warrior Crazy Horse on horseback, pointing southeast to the lands where many of his people lie buried.
(CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
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