The Black Hills of South Dakota are a land of breathtaking beauty and fierce meaning, a region where two colossal monuments—Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial—stand as rival storytellers.

The upshot was the Crazy Horse Memorial, a much larger sculpture than Borglum’s, hewn from Thunderhead Mountain in the Black Hills 17 miles (27.3km) from Mount Rushmore. It was intended ...

Today a visit to the site testifies to the growing interest in Native American themes: even as a work in progress, Crazy Horse has already become a must-see counterpart to Mount Rushmore ...

Seeing the slow progress on Crazy Horse, a project that was launched ... sites administered by the National Park Service — Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Wind Cave and Badlands national ...

Though it might be obvious, it’s important to state just how different the meaning of the Crazy Horse Memorial is from that of the Mount Rushmore carvings, which are only a dozen or so kilometres away ...

The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle ... In South Dakota, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led various Sioux tribes against the U.S. Army. They had a notable success against ...