The Carving of Mount Rushmore

by Rex Alan Smith

control the work—the Crazy Horse project is financed, and therefore controlled, entirely by the Ziolkowskis themselves. In the beginning Korczak paid for it with income from a dairy farm he established for that purpose at the mountain’s base. Now, it is supported entirely from fees paid by sightseeing visitors. At Rushmore a modern water system and plumbing were installed in 1939, and modern toilet facilities were constructed to replace the smelly, old-fashioned outhouses that had served the monument’s visitors until then. At the same time, Borglum put in a modern water system at his ranch, and for the first time there, too, the Borglum’s and their guests could enjoy the advantages of indoor plumbing. Also, a huge new studio was under construction for Borglum at Rushmore, and had it not been for delays caused by the transfer of the project back to the National Park Service it would have been finished. Borglum was infuriated with the Park Service over the delay, and he was also quarreling with the