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why was mount rushmore built

why was mount rushmore built?  First, to attract tourists to the Black Hills of South Dakota and second, to build a memorial depicting the ideals of the United States that make this a great country.

“The reason that the Mount Rushmore project was undertaken was Gutzon Borglum’s wish to create something grand in order to pay tribute to the four presidents. But apart from that, he also wanted to commemorate the high ideals that they each had brought to the United States as well as exemplified in themselves. As he said himself that they were picked because they ‘commemorate the founding, growth, preservation, and development to the United States.’” -http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-mount-rushmore.html

“In the words of Mount Rushmore's creator, John Gutzon Borglum, ‘Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the works of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away.’" -http://www.mountrushmoreinfo.com/

“South Dakota state historian Doane Robinson conceived the idea in 1923 to attract more people to the Black Hills of South Dakota with colossal carvings of western heroes. Robinson gained support from major players in South Dakota and Washington DC with the help of Senator Peter Norbeck and Congressman William Williamson. Congress passed legislation authorizing the mountain carving in Harney National Forest Preserve (now Black Hills National Forest).” -http://www.nps.gov/archive/moru/park_history/carving_hist/carving_history.htm

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