Crazy Horse Monument Fundraising Begins

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Crazy Horse Monument Fundraising Begins

Monday May 30, 2005 2:16 AM

By JOE KAFKA

Associated Press Writer

CUSTER, S.D. (AP) - Nearly six decades have passed since work began on the Crazy Horse Memorial, a granite mountain being carved into a colossal sculpture of the Sioux warrior, arm outstretched toward his ancestral homeland, astride a stallion more than two football fields long.

When it's finished - and no one is predicting when that will be - the sculpture will be 563 feet high and 641 feet long. It will be taller than the Washington Monument, and so large that the four presidential heads on Mount Rushmore, 17 miles away, would fit inside the nine-story-high warrior's head.

But with $17 million spent so far, raised largely from visitors and others familiar with the project, only a portion of the monument is finished. Now, for the first time, a national fundraising drive is being quietly started in hopes of accelerating the pace.

The monument was suggested in 1939 by Sioux Chief Henry Standing Bear, who asked Boston-born sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to do the work. Ziolkowski, an acclaimed sculptor from Boston, had worked briefly at Mount Rushmore but didn't get along with chief sculptor Gutzon Borglum.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5040211,00.html

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1. Man, I've been watching

them try and build this since I was a kid in the 70s. It was featured on "Real People" a shitload of times.