Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse Memorial, located between Custer and Hill City in South Dakota, is going to be the world's largest sculpture - carved right out of the mountain. When complete, the sculpture will be 641 feet wide and 563 feet high. By comparison, the heads of Mount Rushmore are 60 feet high.
It was begun in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski at the request of Native Americans. The sculpture portrays the chief Crazy Horse, who among other things lead the battles of Little Bighorn in 1876.
Crazy Horse resisted being since he had strong beliefs in preserving the culture and ways of the traditional Native Americans, but his portrait in the form of a monument carved right out of the mountain has become a legend in the tale of Native Americans. "My lands are where my dead lie buried" are his words over the impressive, unfinished work in the holy Black Hills.
