Mountain Man: Monument to Crazy Horse is a work in progress.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: September 11, 2000| Author: Nania, Gina | Copyright information

CRAZY HORSE, S.D. _ At Mount Rushmore, more than 2.5 million visitors each year trade stares with presidents Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln.

Carved into a mountain 17 miles away is another hard-eyed face, wearing an expression perhaps less serene and self-satisfied. Dwarfing the granite presidents, and commemorating a man more notable in Black Hills history, is the emerging memorial to the storied and controversial Lakota war chief Crazy Horse.

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