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• Position: 563-foot-high carving of Crazy Horse - Brief article

In 1939, Lakota Indian leaders in South Dakota asked Connecticut sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to create a sculpture in the Black Hills that would dwarf the presidential portraits on nearby Mt. Rushmore. Eight years later, Ziolkowski began work on a 563-foot-high carving of Crazy Horse, the 19th-century Sioux warrior best known for defeating Colonel George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The Lakota told Ziolkowski that they "would like the white man to know the red man has great heroes too." But sculpting a mountain requires both dynamiting and detailed carving, and 65 years into the project-which...