South Dakota is famously home to Mount Rushmore, but it's also been making room for a second colossal mountain carving that, when finished, will dwarf the four presidents. The sculpture in progress is ...

Crazy Horse Memorial sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski was busy rough shaping the 219-foot-tall horse's head when he died in 1982, leaving his dream of honoring the Oglala Lakota warrior with a mammoth ...

SOUTH DAKOTA (CBSNewYork) -- A monument honoring native American legend Crazy Horse is slowly taking shape high above the Black Hills of South Dakota. For nearly 70 years, crews have been blasting ...

CRAZY HORSE, S.D. – It was to be the largest sculpture in the world: a granite portrait of a Sioux leader on horseback whittled out of a mountain in the Black Hills here. In scale and complexity, the ...

Of all the striking monuments you might encounter while driving an overstuffed minivan west across the United States, few leave quite as intense and complex an impression as the Crazy Horse Memorial — ...

One of my vacation goals is to see the monument of Native American chief Crazy Horse, which is being carved into a mountain of South Dakota's Black Hills and, when completed, will be larger than Mount ...

Nearly every morning for more than half a century, 85-year-old Ruth Ziolkowski rises around dawn, puts her feet on the ground and gives thanks she is part of a dream. Since 1947, she has worked at the ...

The world's largest monument is also one of the world's slowest to build. In South Dakota, 70 years have passed since one man — and later his family — began to sculpt Crazy Horse, a famous Native ...

The Crazy Horse monument in March 2012. When finished, it is expected to be 641 feet long and 563 feet high. It is the largest mountain carving in progress. South Dakota is famously home to Mount ...

Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who started the Crazy Horse memorial in 1948, smokes a cigarette near a crate of dynamite on a bluff of the Black Hills in 1950. A 1/34th scale model of what the Crazy ...