Just 8 miles from Mt. Rushmore, another monumental sculpture, The Crazy Horse Memorial, is taking shape. Designed and started in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziółkowski, the statue of Crazy Horse, an Oglala Lakota warrior riding a horse, will be the largest in the world when (or if) it is finished.
Ziółkowski died in 1982. The work is now being supervised by his wife Ruth. Jill took this picture of Ruth (in blue) in the visitor center’s restaurant.
Glenn and Ziółkowski’s first air compressor. Ziółkowski referred to it as the “Buda” but the compressor was actually made by Gardner Denver, a company still making air compressors. The engine was made by the Buda Engine Co.
The compressor was many years old when Ziółkowski acquired it. Stories were told about the engine stopping after Ziółkowski had climbed up the mountain only to have to climb back down to restart it.
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