Image by jimbowen0306 via FlickrWhile Mount Rushmore National Memorial is impressive, it's not the largest carved mountain in the world. That honor belongs to the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills, just down the road from Mount Rushmore.Korczak Ziolkowski started out as a sculptor at Mount Rushmore; his work there began in 1939, after winning a prize for his sculpture "PADEREWSKI, Study of an Immortal," at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
A fateful encounter with Chief Standing Bear caused Ziolkowski to change gears and begin his own mountain carving, one dedicated to a hero of the Lakota people whose homeland this is.
Ziolkowski began work on Crazy Horse Memorial in 1948 and continued working there until his death in 1982. Crazy Horse Memorial receives no public funding, and as such it as still a work in progress even after all these decades. Ziolkowski's children and others continue the work on the Memorial.
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