“Abraham Lincoln” 64 Gutzon and Mary Borglum 65 Stone Mountain 96 Working Platform Near Summit of Stone Mountain 96 Model of Stone Mountain Group 97 Stone Mountain, Showing Superimposed Carving of Central Group 128 North Carolina Memorial at Gettysburg 129 “The Trail Drivers” 160 The Borglums’ Daughter 161 Woodrow Wilson Memorial at Poznan 192 Torso and Leg of Dancer 193 Gutzon Borglum and Son Lincoln 224 Lincoln Borglum 225 Lincoln and Gutzon Borglum in Hoist 256 Plaster Model in Mountain Studio 257 View of Rushmore Showing Heads of the Four Presidents 288 F.D.R. at the Unveiling of Jefferson, August 1936 289 GIVE THE MAN ROOM CHAPTER ONE _MOUNTAINTOP_ If you are studying the history of Gutzon Borglum, the place to stand is at Stone Mountain, Georgia. It is an impressive spot, quiet, little visited, a vast bubble of granite rising abruptly some 800 feet out of a grassy plain, and thousands of feet long. Good roads lead to it from Atlanta. There is, or used to be, a little information office at the foot of its towering cliff, and usually there is someone about to sell souvenirs or to give a sketchy and bewildering account of the mountain’s history. High on the cliff there is a flat place from which several acres of surface rock have been removed; and to the left of the flat is the somewhat unidentifiable head of a man. The guide will tell you that this is the representation of Robert E. Lee, as indeed it might be--Lee or anybody. There is little left to mark the handiwork of man in this neighborhood. Grass and brush have covered the fallen rock. The scaffolds are down, the tool sheds and storehouses vanished. The steel hooks are gone from the face of the cliff. There are no great funds in the hands of the local patriots. But this is the place. It was because of his work here, because of what he discovered about granite at Stone Mountain, and because of his carving of the head of Robert E. Lee, which today nobody can rightfully attribute to him, that Gutzon Borglum’s memory will be a long time in dying.