Lakota warrior Crazy Horse has long been a controversial figure, so perhaps it’s only appropriate that his memorial follow suit. Though he’s best known for fighting against George Armstrong ...

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. Matthew Staver/Landov hide caption ...

Crazy Horse was among the leaders of the Lakota Sioux who attacked and destroyed a U.S. Army regiment in 1876 -- a two-day battle that went down in history as Custer’s Last Stand.

In 1948 work began on Crazy Horse, a Native American monument in South Dakota. It's still not finished 71 years on. Here's what's happened.

Over the years, Ruth Ziolkowski attracted celebrated entertainers and notable statesmen to Crazy Horse Memorial. Here she poses with actor James Whitmore who died in 2009.

It’s just after 10 a.m. and Terry DeRouchey is driving up the trail to see the base of what will be the highest stone structure in the world. That is if it’s ever finished. “This is supposed ...

It took 10 years. But people can see the progress for miles around. Over the decades, blasting and drilling away 7 million tons of rock chiseled the chief into focus.

John R. Beyer and wife, Laureen, visit the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota to experience the construction that has been ongoing for more than 73 years.

Crazy Horse Memorial adds a new tower crane on ... In the last eleven years, over 400 students from 70 Native Nations and 29 states have successfully completed an academic program of The ...

When Ziolkowski died in 1982 at 74, the Crazy Horse Memorial was still not even close to being completed. Ziolkowski’s widow and ten children picked up the task, finally completing Crazy Horse ...

CRAZY HORSE, S.D. (AP) -- Sixty years after the first blast signaled work had begun on the world's largest mountain carving, the project is far from finished.