Ocean State Libraries

"It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so. Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving carried out through the years of the Great Depression when funding for anything was hard to come by. Yet Mount Rushmore now draws almost three million visitors...

While visiting Mount Rushmore, Curious George gets into mischief when he takes an unplanned ride on a hot air balloon.

A biography of the sculptor who devoted the last fourteen yearsof his life to the carving of the four presidents' heads on theface of Mount Rushmore.

When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...

"Join a park ranger as he introduces the story of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial"--P. [4] of cover.

Traces the history of the Mount Rushmore, a mountain carving of four U.S. presidents in South Dakota, explains how the giant project was accomplished, and discusses its importance as a symbol of the country.

An introduction to the creation and visitation of Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota.

Describes how this patriotic shrine and tourist attraction was conceived, designed, and created by the dedicated artist Gutzon Borglum.