The first time Calvin Coolidge met Gutzon Borglum, the president agreed to the artist's scheme to mint commemorative coins. With the coins, Borglum hoped to raise funds to carve a mountain into ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Let’s look now to “Silent Cal” - Calvin Coolidge. Before becoming the 30th president, Coolidge was born on the Fourth of July in 1872. When he was 23, he graduated ...

Among his first ideas about carving Mount Rushmore into the likenesses of American presidents, the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, insisted that there should be an explanatory inscription, which he called ...

Hundreds of men spent thousands of man hours spent just over 14 years carving Mount Rushmore National Memorial. The figure of George Washington was finished first - nearly three years into the ...

Another milestone in the artistic progress of Gutzon Borglum, carver of mountains, was marked last week by a clash with Calvin Coolidge and a hurried meeting of the trustees of the Mount Rushmore ...

A specialist in immensity, a modeler of monuments out of mountains, Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is doubtless pleased to reflect that his name will last as long as the hills on which he has carved his ...

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is hosting a gathering next week to start the celebration of its 90 years of history. The March 25 event in the Carver's Cafe will include a talk on the park history, ...