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Mount Rushmore
Located near
Keystone, South Dakota,
Mount Rushmore National Monument is a memorial that
was designed to celebrate the first 150 years of U.S. history.
The memorial consist of sculptures of of four American Presidents:
George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson,
Abraham Lincoln and
Theodore Roosevelt.
Mount Rushmore Books
Here are some books about Mount Rushmore that you might enjoy reading:
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By Laural A. Bidwell
Moon Travel Released: 2016-04-26 Paperback (272 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Moon Travel Guides: Find Your Adventure
Experience the open skies of the Badlands, the rolling prairies of the West, and one of America's most famous monuments with Moon Mount Rushmore & The Black Hills. Inside you'll find:
- Strategic, flexible itineraries, tailored for adventure seekers, families, history buffs, art lovers, road-trippers, and more
- Recommendations for outdoor recreation, including hiking, climbing, fishing, backpacking, and more, plus essential packing tips and health and safety information
- The top experiences and unique ideas: Say hi to the carved granite faces of the presidents, then hike red rock canyons and hills covered in ponderosa pine. Spot bison, elk, and mountain goats, and see wild horses roaming the grassy flatlands. Test yourself by climbing the tallest peak east of the Rockies, or get your adrenaline going at a local rodeo. Visit historic sites, galleries, and museums, to learn about Lakota history. Soak in local hot springs, pan for gold, or enjoy the solitude of the prairie and sleep under a field of stars
- How to respectfully connect with Native American culture, including visiting the Crazy Horse Memorial and attending a powwow
- Valuable insight from seasoned adventurer and local expert Laural A. Bidwell
- Full-color, vibrant photos and detailed maps throughout
- Up-to-date information on park fees, passes, directions, and reservations to Mount Rushmore, Badlands National Park, Custer State Park, and Wind Cave National Park
- Coverage of gateway cities and towns, including Rapid City, Hill City, and Keystone
- Honest advice for families, seniors, international visitors, travelers with disabilities, and traveling with pets
- Thorough background on the culture, history, wildlife, and terrain
With Moon Mount Rushmore & The Black Hills, you can plan your trip your way.
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For full coverage of America's national parks, check out Moon USA National Parks: The Complete Guide to All 59 National Parks. |
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By True Kelley
Grosset Dunlap Released: 2015-02-05 Paperback (112 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so. Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving carried out through the years of the Great Depression when funding for anything was hard to come by. Yet Mount Rushmore now draws almost three million visitors to the Black Hills every year. This is an entertaining chronicle of one man's magnificent obsession, which even today sparks controversy. |
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By Carole Marsh
Gallopade International Paperback (160 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Christina, Grant, Mimi and Papa make their way to Mount Rushmore to check out the colossal carving of four presidents? and find a mountain's worth of mystery, history, precocious prairie dogs, quirky clues, befuddling Badlands, and one Crazy Horse! One sassy sculptor! A batch of badlands! One store named Wall! Four story faces! And a Loooooong way down!
LOOK what's inside this mystery - people, places, history and more!
PLACES: South Dakota: Mount Rushmore National Memorial - Avenue of Flags • Grand View Terrace • Lincoln Borglum Museum • Wall Drug Store, Route 90 • Sioux reservation • Custer State Park, Pierre • Prairie dog town • Peter Norbeck Visitor Center • Crazy Horse Monument and Visitor Center, Custer County.
PEOPLE: George Washington • Thomas Jefferson • Abraham Lincoln • Theodore Roosevelt • Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor • Lincoln Borglum, Sculptor • Crazy Horse, Sioux warrior • Henry Standing Bear • Korczak Ziolkowski, sculptor.
HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY/SOCIAL STUDIES: Mount Rushmore History and Facts • South Dakota History, Geography, Weather, Animal Life and Plant Life • The Badlands History, Geology: Erosion, Corrosion, Rock minerals, mako sica Animals: coyote • Prairie Products: Wheat and Animals: prairie dogs, bison, burros • Sioux Nation History, Reservation and Traditional Dance: rain dance • The Promise • Proverbs.
Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities.
Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.3 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 140439 Lexile Measure: 670 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q Developmental Assessment Level: 40 Get your FREE Resources!

1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards HERE.

2. Download the Where Have You Been map HERE.

3. Utilize the Real Kids! Real Places! Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 50 mysteries HERE.
4. Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities HERE.
5. Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters HERE. |
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By Judith Jango-Cohen
Lerner Publishing Group Paperback (32 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Have you ever seen a face that's taller than a house? People come from across the country to see the huge faces on Mount Rushmore. Four U.S. presidents are carved on this tall mountain. Just whose idea was Mount Rushmore? And how did workers carve this amazing sculpture? Read this book to find out. Learn about many remarkable sites in the Famous Places series--part of the Lightning Bolt Books(tm) collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books(tm) bring nonfiction topics to life. |
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By Marion Dane Bauer
Simon Spotlight Released: 2007-05-08 Paperback (32 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Mount Rushmore is the most visited place in the United States. Learn the story about how this wonder of America was made. |
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By Rex Alan Smith
Abbeville Press Paperback (416 pages)
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The first book to tell the complete story of Rushmore.
"I had seen the photographs and the drawings of this great work. And yet, until about ten minutes ago I had no conception of its magnitude, its permanent beauty and its importance." —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, upon first viewing Mount Rushmore, August 30, 1936
Now in paperback, The Carving of Mount Rushmore tells the complete story of the largest and certainly the most spectacular sculpture in existence. More than 60 black-and-white photographs offer unique views of this gargantuan effort, and author Rex Alan Smith—a man born and raised within sight of Rushmore—recounts with the sensitivity of a native son the ongoing struggles of sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his workers.
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By Dick Vitale
Nico 11 Publishing & Design Paperback (328 pages)
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One day, I was sitting with a bunch of my buddies and, as usual, the conversation was all about sports. We began to battle back and forth about whether anyone would supplant Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time in the world of basketball. It has been generally felt by many experts that Jordan has not had anyone equal his stature. The fun began as I said, wait a minute, what about King James, LeBron James! Then the battle began. Names came flying out, fast and furious. Jordan and LeBron, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, The Big O, Larry Legend, Magic Johnson. The hits just kept on coming. It was an intense back-and-forth, baby! Well, that gave me an incredible idea. I went to bed that night, tossing and turning, thinking about picking the best of the best in my four decades behind the microphone at ESPN. Then I simply said, I will call it my Mount Rushmores, the best four in various categories, Yes, the best coaches, players, etc. I think you get the picture. I enlisted the help of Hall of Fame writer Dick "Hoops" Weiss and former ESPN research guru Howie Schwab to help come up with categories for our All Mount Rushmore teams. Together we developed this concept and I put together my lists for each group. My friends, let the debates begin. I know you can make a case for different people in several categories. That's the fun part, like being at a sports bar and debating who you liked more. I could have gone with a number of people for coaching and playing honors. At the end, I made some tough decisions. I do want to be very clear that all of my Mount Rushmore players and coaches are only from my era at ESPN, which began on December 5, 1979, when I worked the very first major college basketball game on ESPN, which was between De Paul (Number One in the Nation!) vs. Wisconsin. That is the only reason I did not include greats like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and the legendary John Wooden. They were just before my time at ESPN. I have the utmost respect and admiration for those guys! I hope you enjoy my latest book. It was a lot of fun putting these All-Mount Rushmore teams together. As with most of my projects, this book is really special to me because all of my proceeds from the sale of it will go to the V Foundation for pediatric cancer research. Please spread the word, as we must all unite to help kids battling cancer.I would appreciate it so much if you would make a donation by telling friends about this book and by going to: www.dickvitaleonline.com. All donations will go through the V Foundation for Cancer Research. |
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By John Taliaferro
PublicAffairs Released: 2004-01-06 Paperback (480 pages)
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Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, hoped that ten thousand years from now, when archaeologists came upon the four sixty-foot presidential heads carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota, they would have a clear and graphic understanding of American civilization.
Borglum, the child of Mormon polygamists, had an almost Ahab-like obsession with Colossalism--a scale that matched his ego and the era. He learned how to be a celebrity from Auguste Rodin; how to be a political bully from Teddy Roosevelt. He ran with the Ku Klux Klan and mingled with the rich and famous from Wall Street to Washington. Mount Rushmore was to be his crowning achievement, the newest wonder of the world, the greatest piece of public art since Phidias carved the Parthenon.
But like so many episodes in the saga of the American West, what began as a personal dream had to be bailed out by the federal government, a compromise that nearly drove Borglum mad. Nor in the end could he control how his masterpiece would be received. Nor its devastating impact on the Lakota Sioux and the remote Black Hills of South Dakota.
Great White Fathers is at once the biography of a man and the biography of a place, told through travelogue, interviews, and investigation of the unusual records that one odd American visionary left behind. It proves that the best American stories are not simple; they are complex and contradictory, at times humorous, at other times tragic. |
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By Samuel Lucious
Released: 2019-01-22 Kindle Edition (26 pages)
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By Peter Nielsen
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Paperback (32 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: The Mount Rushmore National Memorial, a huge sculpture carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota, has become one of America's best loved icons. The images of four of America's greatest presidents are carved into the granite of Mount Rushmore, a task that took 14 years to complete. Peter Nielsen delivers a comprehensive list of facts about Mt. Rushmore, explaining how the project took shape, from the original idea to the final completion. Reading a long book can be overwhelming for a child, but Nielsen gives you the Mount Rushmore story in 57 easy to understand segments. We are sure that that you will be fascinated by the facts about Mount Rushmore in our book and that you will be encouraged to learn more about this majestic American national symbol. |
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