Bust of Borglum and the monument - Mount Rushmore National Memorial, SD. Borglum's imagination was fired at the prospect of carving a monument for the great nation he loved. He was impressed with the "Old World radicals who shook the shackles from their light feet and fled despotism to people a continent; who built an empire and rewrote the philosophy of freedom." Photo: Russ Finley Film Size 6X7cm