Since then, Snopes has investigated the histories of a range of monuments across the country, including our previous coverage ...

Mount Rushmore wasn’t really his idea. Robinson conceived the original concept in a bid to boost tourism. As it sits in the sacred land of the Lakota Sioux Nation in the Black Hills of South Dakota, ...

Carved from the ageless granite of South Dakota’s Black Hills, Mount Rushmore National Memorial was originally envisioned as a tribute to some of the American West’s legendary heroes. But when famed ...

(Underwood & Underwood / Corbis) In the 1920s, despite the area’s atrocious roads, a fair number of adventurous travelers were visiting South Dakota’s Black Hills. But Doane Robinson, the official ...