Adventurers Club Los Angeles. Wilson and Disney Imagineering Vice President Chris Carradine saw the show "three or four times together and a few times more with others." According to Wilson, there was also "more than a pinch of Rick’s Cafe," from the film "Casablanca". There was an actual adventurers club, called the Ends of the Earth Club, created in 1903. Its members included Mark Twain, General John Pershing, Admiral Robert Peary, Gutzon Borglum (the sculptor of Mt. Rushmore) and more than 100 other prominent businessmen and academics located, primarily, in the northeastern United States. However, there is no evidence that the Disney
Gutzon Borglum sculpted the memorial "Start Westward of the United States", which is located in Marietta, Ohio (1938). He built the statue of Daniel Butterfield at Sakura Park in Manhattan (1918). He created a memorial to Sacco and Vanzetti (1928), a plaster cast of which is now in the Boston Public Library. Another Borglum design is the North Carolina Monument on Seminary Ridge at the Gettysburg Battlefield in south-central Pennsylvania. The cast bronze sculpture depicts a wounded Confederate officer encouraging his men to push forward during Pickett's Charge. Borglum had also made arrangements for an airplane to fly over the monument during