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Article: MOUNT RUSHMORE; AN ICON WITH MANY FACES.(TRAVEL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 27, 2003
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Byline: Chris Welsch; Staff Writer
We were standing under the noses of the presidents, looking up.
A rubble pile sprawls under the iconic portraits. It was left when the mountain was blasted, drilled and carved away to create images of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln.
"There are 450,000 tons of rock on the talus slope," said ranger Brian McMahon. He told my tour group that if the presidents were carved to their full height, they would stand more than 400 feet tall.
From the boardwalk at the foot of the mountain, I could see the magnitude of Rushmore. A mountain had literally been remade in the image of men.
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