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Meet the face mountain Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota.

1987. Ruth Ziolkowski in front of the upper 70 feet f Crazy Horse’s “face” before detail work
began on the nine-story-high face.

April 1990. Detail work and “polishing” had revealed much of the forehead.

February 1991. Work had begun on the eye openings and the nose as beginning to take
rough form.

June 1991. The 33′ forehead had been shaped and the oval of the right eye was cut.

August 1993. Crazy Horse’s nose emerged in space during this famous blast, with eyelids
shaped and pupils simulated.

July 1994. Blasting continued on the left heek with the nose and cheekbones shaped and
work beginning on the lips. 

August 1996. A 31-foot-long stone pillar was “shaved” off the face in his 54-borehole blast
as work progressed to the chin.

1998. Participants on the annual June hike up the mountain give size perspective to the
completed face, dedicated June 3, 1998. 

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