Mount Rushmore reading Mount Rushmore Mount Rushmore National Memorial is centered around a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son Lincoln Borglum. The sculptures feature the heads of Presidents George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The memorial park covers and is above sea level. South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into
Isabel Paterson position was with a newspaper in Vancouver, British Columbia, where for two years she wrote drama reviews. In 1914, Paterson started submitting her first two novels, "The Magpie's Nest" and "The Shadow Riders," to publishers, without much success. It was not until 1916 that her second novel "The Shadow Riders" was accepted and published by John Lane Company, which also published "The Magpie's Nest" the following year in 1917. After World War I, she moved to New York City, where she worked for the sculptor Gutzon Borglum. He was creating statues for the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and