What is the Crazy Horse monument made out of?
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Asked by: William Franklin
Who is the fifth face on Mount Rushmore?
elder Benjamin Black Elk
In the 1950s and 1960s, local Lakota Sioux elder Benjamin Black Elk (son of medicine man Black Elk, who had been present at the Battle of the Little Bighorn) was known as the “Fifth Face of Mount Rushmore”, posing for photographs with thousands of tourists daily in his native attire.
How much did it cost to build Mount Rushmore?
$989,992.32
It cost $989,992.32 to build. Approximately two million tourists visit each year. In 2020, 2,074,986 people visited the monument.
How long did it take to carve Mt Rushmore?
14 years
The 60-foot bust memorial was the vision of sculptor Gutzon Borglum and took 14 years to complete. From 1927 to 1941 men and women worked to blast and carve the faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln into the South Dakota mountain.
