The plot of land in South Dakota’s Black Hills, according to Rhoden, is privately owned by a family willing to donate it.

The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story ... (Some of the area in which Rushmore stands was eventually purchased by the state of South Dakota and developed as Custer State Park; the rest was ...

Planning a camping trip to the Black Hills that includes a visit to the famous Mount Rushmore monument in South Dakota?

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden sent President Donald Trump an invitation Tuesday to fulfill a promise from five years ago: ...

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden is reviving plans to give away Black Hills land near Mount Rushmore for President Donald Trump to build a statuary garden. Rhoden sent a letter Tuesday to Trump ...

August: Borglum arrives in South Dakota and declares that he will carve a mountain, not the Needles. He decides on Mount Rushmore as the best site. Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt are to ...