July 5, 2011
On our way from the Black Hills to the Salt Lake Valley we stopped at the Crazy Horse Memorial (which is also in the Black Hills).
Crazy horse was a Native American leader and warrior who was fatally wounded by the U.S. military in 1877. It was Henry Standing Bear who contacted Korczak Ziolkowski and asked him to carve a memorial in honor of the red man in the Black Hills.
Crazy Horse Memorial is still under construction today and has been for the past 60+ years. When it is completed it will be taller than the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. Here is a picture of a sculpture of what the finished result will look like.
This is a picture of the sculpture and the actual memorial in the background. You can see that they still have a long way to go. And you can also get an idea of just how big it will be.
And here are a few stats on this "crazy" monument.
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