It took more than 14 years for Mount Rushmore to be completed. During it's construction, unstable stone forced the the sculptor to dynamite Jefferson's original face. From: AERIAL AMERICA: The Dakotas bit.ly/1oaSeBo
The fact a team of non-artists using jackhammers lead by one artist (Gutzon Borglum) built this 60 ft awe inspiring colossal structure in 14 years is beyond mind blowing.
The aerials in this footage make Mt. Rushmore look so small and insignificant but when you are there it is quite magnificent and awe inspiring! There is a hiking trail that goes right under the faces and it makes you feel small!
The original plans were to have the figures bodies carved out to their waists (if you look, theres room) but the old man died and WWII came along and money ran out. If you visit there, you can see a huge wax model by Borglum as how it was supposed to look.
Wasn´t this a holy site for the Natives? I mean they were protesting to at least leave them that untouched, right? Nobody in Australia, doesn´t matter how bold or great, didn´t curve Uluru out and still handle it with respect since its sacred to Aboriginals.
In 2,000 years, future people will be wondering how the monument was created with such primitive tools, and speculate it could only be built with help from Ancient Aliens.
@@makteko Yes, I do! It certainly is a possibility at the rate of degration of our environment and Planet. Things are happening now extremely fast. But I'm not interested in trying to convince people who aren't in touch with reality "😂"
Eli is correct. The original designer wanted the president’s to have bodies and reportedly wanted to build a room behind the heads where the Declaration and the Constitution would be stored.
Actually the monument was never finished, only declared as finished, because WW2 and fundings, so they had to declare it as "finished". Look at Abe's head/har - obviously needed much more work.
@@barchetta575m bro are you trying to get the entire monument bombed??? How selfish to think Trump a home alone hollywood star belongs with the greatest presidents of our history.
@Ella Some people are loyal to the country they live in and aren't having an identity crisis where they're torn between two countries. Obviously you can't say the same.
Ryan Edwards - I might be proud that I got a B+ in a difficult course , BUT , might still want a A +. I might be glad that I rushed for 100 yards in a game , but , was even happier when I got 140 yards . Many of the people who want significant change , are proud of the USA , but think that it can do better .
@@pbradics3670 The lies perpetuated by the south , after their terrible Civil War losses , through a fantasy called the "Lost Cause" , are believed by many , and still being taught in some circles . This is a huge failing for any education system ,and should be thoroughly cleansed from schools and from society. The Confederate monuments are part of that massive LIE . It is beyond the pale that 40,000,000 black Americans are expected to walk by statues of men who absolutely despised them , such as Jefferson Davis , Alexander Stephens , Robert E. Lee , Jubal Early , Braxton Braddock , Leonidas Polk and Nathan Bedford Forest . It would be like asking Jewish Americans to put up with statues of Adolph Eichmann , or to ask Ukrainians to celebrate Joseph Stalin . ( These men started a war to allow rich southern planters to stay rich .( see the Letters of Secession ) Then , when they lost , they made up a fairy tale to serve their needs .)
Click bait title! I came here to see what it would have looked like! You just showed what there is now, not even period footage of when it was being built! 😠
When we all disappear and there’s nothing left of our infrastructure and technology. Only Mount Rushmore will be left to show this period in history. In time it will weather like the Sphinx but should last thousands of years.
How can it be great, when it was created on stolen land? The Black Hills, including Mt. Rushmore, legally belong to the Lakota Sioux people, like it or not.
@@johnlocke4695 no, it does not. Legally, it belongs to the Lakota Sioux people, per the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which grants legal ownership of the entire Black Hills, including Six Grandfathers (what you Europeans call Mt. Rushmore) to the Lakota. You people are trespassing and squatting on Lakota land, cupcake. Try and keep up with harsh reality. But of course, if you believe that the law of the land...YOUR law...should not be extended to the rights of Native Americans, then come on out and admit that you're a hopeless bigot, as well as an invasive foreigner living on stolen land.
@@johngalt8279 American belongs to Americans by right of conquest. The principal of democracy this represents inspires all of humanity and will continue to do so for thoousands of years. Cope and seeth
@@saltycoffe1631 sorry, puddin', but those plethora of treaties that your people drafted and signed, acknowledging legal land ownership by the tribes, negates the validity of your argument. The US Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that indeed, the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie is valid, so the Black Hills legally belong to the Lakota Sioux people. All such violated treaties...none of which has a statute of limitations...need to be revisited by an army of attorneys. You are living on stolen land, rendering you a squatter. Deal with it.
No mention in this video of the fact that the land belongs to the Lakota, and is sacred to them. They proved in the Supreme Court that it is theirs by treaty right - and the Court offered them monetary compensation. Not much. They want the land, not any money they may be offered for it.... It is theirs by Treaty right. That is equivalent to it being in the US Constitution.
@@hunkpapa5843 If that happens, then that happens. I assume the United States is able to stop a Chinese invasion, but that's just another example of what I was saying. If were are not able to defend the land we sit on, someone else will come in and try to take it.
More like white folk getting offended for the sake of red folk. The libs don't realize it, but they're only reinforcing the noble savage stereotype as they do so.
@@TheBoldImperator The tribes were always opposed to this monument. This particular mountain was part of their tribal origin story and is sacred to them.
reminds me of the videos you watch at many of the national parks before taking a tour/entering the park. gave me goosebumps thinking about when I visited rushmore. amazing trip that you really need to make if you are an american
_"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism."_ _"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."_ _"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."_ _"It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present, precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises."_
Sacred? What's so sacred about rock and dirt that nature carved over thousands of years, maybe millions? What about what was there millions of years ago that got eroded away? Who should be punish for that? Mother Nature? God? Lol ridoculous
chemicalsam I hereby claim the Chartreuse mountain range for my people and declare it our scared land. My people being my immediate family of course. You see how easy this is?
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Legend says near Mount Rushmore is a hidden village. I believe a leaf village..
The four Presidents on Mt. Rushmore, each one lived on the planet the SAME time as the other at one point: George Washington was 11 years old when Thomas Jefferson was born. Thomas Jefferson was 17 years old when Abraham Lincoln was born. Abraham Lincoln was 49 years old when Theodore Roosevelt was born...
Fiamma Nera Patrick you need prayer, colonizer. What goes up always comes back down. Your words and your attitude, and that of scores of humans such as yourself, will be the burden of our whole nation. We won’t be on top forever. You always pay for your sins.
HISTORY LESSON: The Lakota KILLED many then took the territory of the Black Hills from the Cheyenne in 1776, in fact there have been several who called this area their's, the Arikara arrived by AD 1500, followed by the Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa and Pawnee. The Lakota (also known as Sioux) arrived from Minnesota in the 18th century and drove out the other tribes, who moved west. They claimed the land, which they called Ȟe Sápa (Black Mountains). The mountains commonly became known as the Black Hills. American alpha males kicked as^ same as the others in order to gain this territory the difference is no one has been or will EVER be able to kick American patriots as^es!
I'm disgusted you didn't mention the plan to include the TEN COMMANDMENTS. Instead, you said 'a tablet inscribed with an inspirational text" Religious cleansing.
Quest Cooks Did I say I know anything about the native Americans? Also why are you so triggered? I just got this from a Reddit post. Don’t turn this shit into a fight
1st, 3rd, 16th and 26th Presidents, all all selected for notable reasons. If it were being constructed today, would any America choose and additional presidents?
@@WaluigiLebron According to Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich, Lincoln was a failure at every thing he did until he met the love of his life Ann Rutledge.
The_Endgame ah, is it their fault that they are technologically superior? You make it sound like they can control spreading disease (remember rats from Asia killing a third of European population?). The native tribes also genocided other tribes to survive. I
@@subugatai7072 on the whole, indigenous life outclassed white settler life by every metric. The youngest sioux soldiers who killed custer lived until their 90s.. The same white settlers of that time lived on average till their 40s.
@@subugatai7072 I don't give a fuck of you mentioned "life expectancy". That was in my comment, the one that YOU replied to. Move along dipshit, if people are talking about apples don't come along talking oranges and act like your God's gift to intellectual conversation.
When my parents were born, none of the carvings existed yet. Whoa.... Not until they were 9 & 11 years old, was the first one on there... trying to get my head around that...
