The first time Calvin Coolidge met Gutzon Borglum ... envisioned for an Entablature to accompany the portraits on Rushmore. Coolidge's goodwill was helpful in the effort to raise funds for ...

Illustrated by big-chiseling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, laconic Calvin Coolidge’s 500-word history of the U. S. to be carved on the face of Mt. Rushmore, S. Dak., will be legible from three miles ...

Alabama was a bustling state. Its economy was largely based on agriculture but the steel industry was booming and coal mines and textile mills were plentiful. Alabama was in its 106th year of ...

He decides on Mount Rushmore as the best site ... The old Jefferson head is blasted away. Coolidge having died the year before, Borglum announces in Hearst newspapers that text for the Entablature ...

Mount Rushmore is one of the United States' most ... After negotiations with President Calvin Coolidge, the project was eventually approved in 1925. Borglum and 400 men (and a few women), many ...