Mount Rushmore Chapter 1

Season 14 Episode 4

The story behind the world's largest sculpture and the shrine of democracy.

An obsessed artist struggles against bankruptcy, public indifference, and a brutal terrain, to build the great American monument, Mount Rushmore. High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Together they constitute the world's largest piece of sculpture.

AIR DATE 1/24/02

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