A colossal monument of the Lakota warrior chief in South Dakota is 64 years in the making. Problems in the underlying rock are forcing the... The Slow Carving Of The Crazy Horse Monument South Dakota ...

A towering monument to one of the most revered figures in Native American history is slowly taking shape in South Dakota. Crazy Horse was among the leaders of the Lakota Sioux who attacked and ...

Sixty years after the first blast signaled work had begun on the world's largest mountain carving, the project is far from finished. The carved face of Crazy Horse has been completed and a welcome ...

There’s nothing like mounting a horse, tossing your head back, and riding off in the California surf. Unless, of course, your horse is handcrafted by Torah ark woodcarvers, and mounted to a pole in ...

Although it will take him six months to finish carving his wooden carousel horse, Maryland artist Stanley Schaper said the process is fairly simple. “All you do is cut off what doesn’t look like a ...

This column on the art of the carousel is in response to readers who asked how volunteers actually carved the horses on the Berkshire Carousel. Figure carving for carousels became a lost art in 1930.

Two blasts at the Crazy Horse Memorial mountain carving have paid tribute to military veterans. Officials at the mountain carving in South Dakota's Black Hills say a small gathering of people stood in ...

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The Crazy Horse monument in March 2012. When finished, it is expected to be 641 feet long and 563 feet high. It is the largest mountain carving in progress. South Dakota is famously home to Mount ...

South Dakota is famously home to Mount Rushmore, but it's also been making room for a second colossal mountain carving that, when finished, will dwarf the four presidents. The sculpture in progress is ...

Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who started the Crazy Horse memorial in 1948, smokes a cigarette near a crate of dynamite on a bluff of the Black Hills in 1950. A 1/34th scale model of what the Crazy ...