... was named after Charles E. Rushmore. Rushmore was a New York lawyer who was hired to investigate some land claims in the Black Hills around 1885 (Presnall 26). When Rushmore and his guide, Bill Challis, approached the grand mountain Rushmore asked what the mountain was called. Challis replied that the site would from now on be called Mount Rushmore. Rushmore was an earlier ... was inspired by a teacher who specialized in landscape paintings, Elizabeth Putnam, whom he later married in 1888 (YouTube). Borglum and his wife then traveled to Paris so he could further study art. He soon met a...

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