HISTORY5 - Crazy Horse Forever
That Western National Parks tour, which I mentioned in my last article on the history of Mount Rushmore, also stops at the Crazy Horse Memorial, another place I have never been, so I wanted to learn about it too, before our visit in September. The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument, started in 1948 and still under construction on private land in the Black Hills of South Dakota, just over 16 driving miles from the Mount Rushmore Memorial. The Oglala Lakota warrior, Crazy Horse, is being depicted riding a horse and pointing into the distance, in a gigantic 641 feet long x 563 feet high sculpture. The memorial was commission by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, and designed and initially sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski. The project is operated today by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. The incomplete Crazy Horse Memorial sculpture as it appears today. Note the 1/34th scale model in the left foreground. Crazy Horse (1840-1877) Crazy Horse was an Ind