Beyond Mount Rushmore : Other Black Hills Faces

by Kopco, Mary A.

• ISBN13: 9780982274965
• ISBN10: 0982274963
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: South Dakota State Historical Society

Summary

Millions of visitors view the four famous faces of Mount Rushmore each year, but the Black Hills are home to more than just the presidents in Gutzon Borglum's carved memorial.

Author Biography

Mary A. Kopco selected each essay from the pages of South Dakota History, the quarterly journal of the South Dakota State Historical Society, offering readers insight into the private and public lives of these fascinating Black Hills residents. Kopco's introduction provides the context for each face in terms of the general history of the region, weaving the common and uncommon threads that bind the years, themes, and personalities together. Kopco is director of the Adams Museum House in Deadwood, South Dakota. She is an author and historical consultant.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
ôDistance Lends Enchantment to the Viewö: A Diary of the 1874 Black Hills Expedition	p. 9
ôI Know…Because I Was Thereö: Reports of the Black Hills Gold Rush	p. 71
A Black Woman in the Black Hills	p. 100
Deadwood's Pioneer Merchant	p. 126
The Bower Family: A Photograph Album of the ôGenuine Original Family Bandö	p. 176
An Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove: The Management of the Homestake Mine, 1885-1914	p. 221
A Crusader on the Last Frontiers	p. 248
A CCC Recruit Looks Back on a Black Hills Experience	p. 267
Alfred Hitchcock and the Faces of Mount Rushmore: ôExpedient Exaggerationsö and the Filming of North by Northwest	p. 279
Jim Creek Journal: Remembering a Black Hills Summer	p. 296
Contributors	p. 327
Index	p. 329
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