Where Is Mount Rushmore?By: True Kelley, Who HQ Illustrator: John Hinderliter Series: Where Is? It was world famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty foot high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so. Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving carried out through the years of the Great Depression when funding for anything was hard