(Underwood & Underwood / Corbis) In the 1920s, despite the area’s atrocious roads, a fair number of adventurous travelers were visiting South Dakota’s Black Hills. But Doane Robinson, the official ...

Journalist Davis (When Things Get Dark) offers a nuanced history of “our most visible piece of Americana,” the 60-foot-tall faces of four presidents carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota.

In “Biography of a Mountain,” author Matthew Davis deftly weaves together interviews and stories that reveal so much more than a linear narrative of the monument’s history.

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, composed of sculptures of the faces of former Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and ...