The Crazy Horse Memorial, home of the world’s largest mountain sculpture in progress, is in the Black Hills of South Dakota on U.S. Highway 16/385 just 17 miles south-west of Mount Rushmore.
Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began the project in 1948 at the request of Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear and other Native American elders.
Korczak died in 1982. His wife, Ruth, and other members of their family continue the project, working with the non-profit Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation.
WORK CONTINUES YEAR-ROUND.
The Crazy Horse Memorial mountain crew uses precision explosive engineering to carefully and safely remove and shape the rock of the mountain. Since the dedication of the face of Crazy Horse in 1998, the work has been focused on blocking out the horse's head.
A network of about a dozen benches will be cut out around the horse's head.
The benches serve to block out the head to within 20 feet of the final surface of the horse's head, while providing access roads for the heavy equipment used to drill holes for loading explosives and to remove loose rock after each blast.
Once the 219-foot horse's head is roughed out, workers will begin a detail blasting and torch cutting process similar to practices used to create the face of Crazy Horse.
To learn more, contact Crazy Horse Memorial, 12151 Avenue of the Chiefs, Crazy Horse, SD 57730-8900. You can telephone direct to (605) 673-4681, Fax (605) 673-2185, or E-mail memorial@crazyhorse.org
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What will the visitors from another planet THINK when they arrive here, and we're all gone - turned to dust millenia ago, and notice that we went to all the bother of carving this chap out of the rock face, only to make his nose too big?
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