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The shadow face of a national monument is revealed, from broken treaties with the Lakota Sioux, to the sculptor's KKK connections, to the tourist invasions that have spoiled the land around the statue. Reprint.
Just a little light reading while waiting to pick the kids up from school. :) We are headed to Mount Rushmore this week, and I couldn't go without more knowledge of its problematic history.