… Borglum was a crackerjack of a sculptor, all you had to do was to look at Rushmore to know that.… But more important, he was a crackerjack of a man. Like the old-timers used to say, he was somebody you could ride the river with.… The choir had finished, and now Badger Clark, nationally recognized poet and poet laureate of South Dakota, was giving the eulogy: … he did not die, this artist, engineer and dreamer. He will live longer than the monument he created. Coming generations five thousand years hence will not ask who the characters on the mountain are, but who carved them.
