Lakota warrior Crazy Horse has long been a controversial figure, so perhaps it’s only appropriate that his memorial follow suit. Though he’s best known for fighting against George Armstrong ...

It's taking awhile. The Crazy Horse Memorial — taller than the Washington Monument and well over two football fields wide — has been 64 years in the making. And problems in the underlying rock ...

A towering monument to one of the most revered figures in Native American history is slowly taking shape in South Dakota. Crazy Horse was among the leaders of the Lakota Sioux who attacked and ...

The world's largest monument is also one of the world's slowest to build. In South Dakota, 70 years have passed since one man — and later his family — began to sculpt Crazy Horse, a famous ...

None of those challenges, however, compares to the long, difficult life of the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Crazy Horse was a Sioux chief who fought at the Battle of ...

But Rushmore’s duality still feels simpler than the layers of significance and controversy around the monument to Crazy Horse. The unfinishedness alone makes the project fascinating: At present ...

The Crazy Horse Memorial is far from finished, but the face alone is as impressive as it is massive. Standing 87 1/2 feet tall, it is almost a third larger than the faces of the four presidents on ...

Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who started the Crazy Horse memorial in 1948, smokes a cigarette near a crate of dynamite on a bluff of the Black Hills in 1950. A 1/34th scale model of what the Crazy ...