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 ...

But the monument also feels, at certain moments, more like a shrine to its presiding genius, the Polish-American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski — a figure of undoubted brilliance and a certain ...

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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. Image: Matthew Staver/Landov.

The Crazy Horse memorial is intended to honor a great chief, and I think intent should matter, much more than it does when PC addicts wag their fingers at whoever says something they don't like.

Neuharth was present when work on the Crazy Horse monument began He visited the monument 13 years straight Neuharth mentored Native Americans interested in journalism SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- USA ...

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 ...

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 ...

CRAZY HORSE, S.D. — “I woke up this morning and prayed to God,” said Marinka Ziolkowski. “Don’t let 50 years of hard work be lost in the fog.”The fog, in fact, did a slow burn-off, the ...

If you built a Native American monument based on his book alone, in other words, it might look a bit like Crazy Horse emerging from the mountainside at full gallop.