Herbert Adams Gibbons Peary, and Gutzon Borglum (the sculptor of Mt. Rushmore). Gibbons attended the 17th annual dinner of the group in 1920. Gibbons is an important eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide and the Greek Genocide. Both events occurred in isolated regions at a time when few western observers were present. The contemporaneous reports that Gibbons made to western news organizations concerning these massacres helped corroborate and document these events for present-day scholars. According to the "New York Times", "the career of Dr. Gibbons was one of high adventure. He traveled to remote corners of the world to gain first hand information on
Solon Borglum group of the sculptor's descendants gave twenty bronzes, marbles, original plasters, portfolios of drawings and paintings to the New Britain Museum of American Art. Today the Museum houses the largest repository of Borglum's works. Borglum sculpted a larger than life bronze equestrian statue for the "Bucky O'Neill Monument, Rough Rider" at the Yavapai County Court House Plaza in Prescott, Arizona. Teddy Roosevelt had persuaded Buckey O'Neill to join the Rough Riders and he was killed at the Battle of San Juan Hill. Borglum's statue "Cowboy at Rest" is also located on the grounds of the Yavapai County Court House in