Naming Mount Rushmore
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2019
- The history of how a famous mountain in the United States, Mount Rushmore, was named may surprise you. It is history that deserves to be remembered.
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I really loved this one and recognized the mountain the minute it was shown (before the sculptures).
Mike
My grandparents took my brother and I to see this (and the 'corn palace') as kids. Ahhhhh memories.
"Who is Mount Rushmore named after?"
"Some guy."
"Why?"
"Why the hell not?"
Any day that I learn something new is a good day. Thanks History Guy.
Went to mount Rushmore as a child with my family on our way from Birmingham Al to Fairbanks Alaska(Ft Wainwright) where my father who was an Army Chaplain had been assigned. While many details of that trip have gotten a little blurry the sight of Mt Rushmore coming in to view is as clear yesterday! Quite an experience everyone needs to have! Thanks for fleshing out a great part of my life.
Sometime in early '79, I decided to drive across country, to see all of the sites I had heard or read about during my youth. Mt Rushmore was a particularly fond memory, as I got a $175 ticket (never paid) for flying my hang glider off the top of the monument (took me most of a day to hike me and my kite up there) for an awesome 3 hour flight.
Haha, gambit for fun! Sounds awesome! Did law enforcement try to hail you down, or just wait at the parking lot? I realize you were probably all up and down the nearby ridges, and not always right there.
Fella I worked with in the late 80’s told us he was the first to land on the peak of a big mountain, in the Canadian Rockies.
Did you do similar at other stops on your journey?
Great story. Cheers!
@@johnnyliminal8032 Oh, yeah. I got another ticket for flying over the Grand Canyon, one in Yosemite for flying off El Capitan (it took me a day just to get to that take-off point) as well, and another in Hawaii, for flying from the top of Diamond Head. Still not sure what the issue was w/ any of the places I went hang gliding, as there were no signs prohibiting it? I only paid the $90 ticket I got in Yosemite, 'cause I go there every year. Too much fun when you're 17/18.
Nice to hear, glad you didn’t inconvenience YOSAR. ;)
Lack of easy vid like GoPros back then makes it seem even longer ago lol. But it let us live the moment better, I think. I got my pilot’s licence during HS in ‘77/78, fully focused, no damn legacy to worry about, and then that went away like a phase and the next things began.
Great episode. I visited the Black Hills and Mt Rushmore last summer. I thought Rushmore would be a tourist trap, but I gained great respect for the folks behind the project and it’s significance in our history during my visit. The Black Hills are super pretty, too. Visit when you can.
As much time as I've spent in Deadwood and the surrounding region you made my day with many things I didn't know about Mt. Rushmore and thre Etta mine ! Thanks for sharing !!
If they'd found potassium it would have been the Kettamine.
I'll get my coat...
That was a horrible pun. Just the way I like 'em! :-)
I C wut U did there. :D
hahahaha too funny and good one .
Groooaannn . . .
Keep it up
Fifty years and I never wondered why it was called Rushmore. Interesting.
I have several books on the first people who arrived for the Klondike gold rush, and their unbelievable hardships. I would be thrilled to see you cover it. The stories are so amazing, and even Wyatt Earp of Tombstone fame went out there for a few years and ran a saloon!
5000 dollars seems like a bargain for historical immortality.
Asmin Siza + does $79004.07 seem like as good a bargain, thats what $5000.00 is worth in 1931 dollars.
@@july8xx Even accounting for inflation, yes its still is.
Brilliant way to start the day; a bit of History Guy!
Many of these pieces remind me of shorter versions of James Burkes Connections
Oe, thanks for the head's up
@puckay I am with you, no TV since 2012.
True! Loved Connections! My father had all of Burke's books and I inherited them when he passed away.
Burkes' Connections was the first program to make history enjoyable as well as highly fascinating. History, as taught in school, should be tried for crimes against humanity or used as a torture method at Guantanamo
@puckay Yes I remember them. It was interesting because you realised that any invention was more often then not made up of existing parts and not something totally new. Connections showed how one invention led to another.
Both the book and DVDs are available on Amazon
Great video! ! as always. Love your work.
Another short snippet I didn't know. Thank you🙂
“Absolute Genius” of a subject. This is an excellent example of questions existing right in front of your eyes, but the question doesn’t pop into your head. Thank you “History Guy”, for this short. The screenshot of the face of Mt. Rushmore, prior to the beginning of the sculpting, was amazing. And who, but you, (“you” includes your staff of cohorts), would think to include it in this presentation. Kudus. This kind of short resembles to me a springboard to launch into the deep pool of history....Thanks
I love that I could watch this whole short while waiting for my toast to pop! Thanks, History Guy!
@mike rusch, much like, oh I dunno, YOUR comment? SMDH
His comment makes sense what are you talking about?
The only part that isnt precise is the "it" which obviously references the video.
Personally I like the shorts. Not every topic really has enough content for a full video. If you have questions at the end of the video DO SOME RESEARCH!
Amount of time it takes for toast to pop. That would make an excellent subjective increment of time.
He crossed the yard in a mere 2 toasts. Or, by the time he got down from the mountain 5 pops had passed...yup, works for me!
Nicely done and another bit of history I never knew!
That was great. The "Little Short" is a great idea.
Thanks once again for information that I didn't know I really wanted, but I do.
Mount Rushmore is, in itself, a marvel.....and The History Guy has made how it got it's name a marvelous story.
San Antonio, Texas was where sculptor Gutzon Borglum created early designs for Mount Rushmore, after converting a dilapidated building near Brackenridge Park Golf Course, into a studio. While in San Antonio, the Borglum family lived in a suite in the Menger Hotel.The hotel is located next to the Alamo. Thanks for your dedication to history.
Great piece of history Guy!
Fascinating!!!!!!! Thank you
And now we know...the rest of the story!
Paul Harvey was awesome.
1:20 That lookout tower must have a view for the ages.
I rarely comment on your history lessons because history is history, but I do love your presentation. Thank you.
I loved this short. Do more longs too though!
Enjoyed! Yes. Thank you
I just realized...we all suggest stuff for him to cover in a video. From this, I wonder if we ever "killed" a video cause one of us remembered about the topic, and now it's 'not forgotten'?---Ha. Thank for the great video!
LOL, not really. But we get far more suggestions than we have time to produce, so it may be a good while between suggestion and episode.
@The History Guy. Nice result with this short format video. Personaly I prefer longer format. More about 15-20 min (or more ?...) wich provide more time to covers about the details oh history. The details provoke my personal excitement. Thanks for videos
The natural stone formations of the Black Hills look very much like those in "Saxon Switzerland" which is part of the Ore Mountains in Saxony, Germany (the region I come from). There are no giants heads though, only a stone bridge between two peaks and a large Fortress on top of a table hill. Thank you for sharing this interesting little story with us. :)
1000 subs a day, you rock, History Guy
Yes! I loved this "Short"!
Awsome story. Thank you
that was awesome man i was there only 2 months ago visiting my nephew at elsworth airforce base which is with in a hop skip and a jump from there keep up the good work
I especially enjoy your shorter videos. Thank you!
This is interesting thank you History Guy
I have been there and had no idea how it was named!! Thanks!
Great videos as always. If I could suggest, please consider doing a video on "Big" Alma Spreckels, the Great Grandmother of San Francisco.
Pretty good name for the mountain. Thanks for the history
Love the short form!
Short is good! (subscribed)
Now THAT was interesting and quick!😎
Having listened to this (was working, so couldn't watch as I was listening), I found the approach on this quite similar to Paul Harvey's "Rest of the Story" approach.
What a deal! $5000 dollars for a mountain! i suppose all of his family get asked if they are named after the mountain though.
Technically, if they were born AFTER the mountain took on the name, then yes, they were named AFTER the mountain (was).
My family is from that area and we have been to Mt Rushmore many times over the years and never heard (or even thought about) how the name came to be....
Super as always.
My Dad and step mother were from a little mountain town in southern California. When they went to visit Mt. Rushmore they were surprised to hear someone calling, "Hey Bill!" behind them. It was the chief of the fire department Dad had served on. Just one of those "small world" things. We need a place for a few small world stories.
Anyway, friend Lance, I am enjoying the short stories, this being among them.
This geologist/history buff who studied in the Black Hills loves this vid!!! Probably the only viewer who immediately recognized the mica and thought tin and lithium at cassiterite and spodumene respectively. Great job H.G., as always!
Mica was the only 1 I knew.
Well if that was the case, you would have thought lepidolite as the mica...
Always interesting
I love All your stuff! Whether it is a short or regular video! Take ed (f
i LOVE your videos! Thank you so much!
I was wondering about the history of the desk in parliament that we see on tv all the time and the items on it? It looks like a scepter on the end, two chests maybe being used as lecterns for speakers notes, a bunch of books (law books perhaps) and who knows what else? It would seem like all of these things might have a history to them and to how they ended up there?
Thank you
Place names fascinate me. Thank you.
Worked with people in Utah who developed place name lists for that state. Unfortunately lots of place names have been lost in time and location. Historians are still arguing where certain battles occurred in Europe, where Biblical sites are located, etc. Thank you. Glen
From "Six Grandfathers" ...... to .... four Forefathers. Kinda ironic.
Would have loved to see it finished.
Thanks again! Keep up the great work!!
Potato Creek Johnny Tom Bass ?
Was expecting you to mention his full plan for the mountain he wanted to sculpt their entire bodies and house the articles in a vault there great video either way
Love your videos! Can you do a short on my great uncle general George Patton? Thanks!
You're still on track to reach 250,000 subscribers in February, I see. :)
Hello nice video looking for the next saludos
Charles Edward Rushmoore is my 8th Cousin.What an honor
I'm in the black hills as I watch this^^
thanks
brilliant
Born & raised near Gutzon Borglum Rd, and just thought it was a weird name for a road.
I served on the USS Rushmore, LSD 47. Never heard this story before.
This should be titled choosing mount rushmores new name, history of all people's deserve to be remembered.
Thank you for that tidbit
Go Queens English and say titbit.
@@revmpandora ahso clever but is it PC? TITbit lol
That dude looks so cool and more something I know not what to say. That is a total frood who definately knows where his towel is. That is accurate. 👊🐶❤🌍❤
*I love your channel Mr. History Guy!* If I may humbly make a suggestion for a follow up video to this one --- The 1868 Treaty Of Fort Laramie, signed by the Sioux tribes and U.S. General William T. Sherman, guaranteed "undisturbed use and occupation" of a large amount of land that included the Black Hills. Then in 1877, a year after the U.S. defeat at the Little Bighorn, the U.S. government basically told the Sioux - You know what? We changed our minds and seized the Black Hills along with all of it's rich mineral deposits. Furthermore --- as you mentioned... The mountain did have a name, The Six Grandfather's. So... the U.S. government not only took the Native Americans rightfully owned land, but renamed it while carving giant figures of U.S. Presidents into their sacred mountain. That wasn't very nice.
I think we can all agree that the treatment of Native peoples by our government was atrocious. That, and slavery, are the two saddest and shameful chapters of our country's history.
History Guy: Commercials worth watching so the HG gets paid.
The Gistory Guy, Can you find out about the last navel battle in WWII? I found this and it tickled my curiosity. "According to Morison's history of the US Navy in WWII, the last
engagement was between a couple of Chinese junks, and was settled by boarding."AlsoI would love your version of Joe Hill and the Wooblies. When I was a high school student we used to dance in Wooblie Halls as did most Oregonians in the 1960'S. There were some very interesting workers of the World massacres in Washington state as well.
Not sure if you have done it but if you haven't could you please do a video on the Pleasant Valley War.
I visited the mountain in 1987. My favorite mode of transportation is by helicopter, having learned to love them in the Marine Corps, and I decided to introduce my wife to helicopters by paying for us to fly up to Lincoln's head in one. It was one of those with a bubble canopy where you could see all around, including below your feet. Bad idea. She basically never opened her eyes and never wanted to come near another helicopter ever. But man, were the Black Hills beautiful.
You cover the Black Hills quite a bit (Or maybe I just notice it because that's near where I live). Are you originally from there or familiar with the area? I first noticed it when you did a video about the Rapid City Flood. It's a big event people from outside the area tend not to know. Anyway, Love your channel and love your videos. Keep up the great work!
I have only done a couple of episodes on the Black Hills, but yes, I grew up in the hills, including a stint as a National Park Ranger at Mount Rushmore. I sat through the night, June 9, 1972, watching the rain pour down and listening to them read names of victims on the radio.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel My mom and her side of the family is from Rapid City. They were survivors of the flood and have crazy stories. My Grand Parents still live in the Cabin they rebuilt that was destroyed below Pactola. I spent a lot of summers there as a kid so that video caught my attention. I'm a huge history nerd and love your channel. Keep up the great work!
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I, like many I'm sure, had to look up the incident referred to. It is of course the Black Hills Flood which affected Rapid City and the nearby town of Keystone. Sorry I was unable to determine if they have a Police Dept.
Derek Mills this event. The original poster mentioned it. I am pretty sure that Keystone relies on county deputies.
ua-cam.com/video/OR0EwnGnp2I/v-deo.html
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thanks for the reply & link - however still disappointed there are no real Keystone Cops!
I love learning things I didn't even know I didn't know about🤓
And a great Wes Anderson movie named after Rushmore also!
Not exactly of earth shattering consequence but interesting nonetheless. I love these short history clips.
I was once told that Nome, Alaska was named by mistake. That at the time of purchase from Russia (a fact later disputed by the Soviet Union, wanting the United Sates to give it back) the only maps in English were from Great Briton and that the British Map Makers knew that there was a settlement there, but did not know it's name. The British decided to use the word "Name" on their maps to indicate the settlement and that they did not know it's name. The Americans misread the name "Name" as Nome believing that it may have been a native name, so they began calling it that and before long it stuck having appeared on several government documents and updated official U.S. map causing what ever the settlement was name before to become Nome.
Ok please provide a proper 10 minute video this is too interesting
This place was of a GIANT importance for the native tribes before this new history
If you want to see evolution of Mount Rushmore, watch: ua-cam.com/video/sGgFcX4oK3I/v-deo.html
Could you do a video on the 1918 "Dutchman's Curve" train wreck in Nashville? it's still the worst train wreck in US history
i think it would be cool if someone finished borlums vision for the sculpture.
Everyone knows Borglum carved the monument to cover up the true location of Cibola... (That's a National Treasure 2 reference.)
I've been there a couple of times. If it's sunny, get there in the morning if you're going to take pictures so the skies will be blue. In the afternoon/evening, the sun is in front of you making the skies grey... This had been a public service announcement. :)
I saw Mt. Rushmore as a Boy Scout; to be honest, I think it looks more impressive in photos than in real life.
How the Great Molasses Flood in Boston in 1919? I heard a snippet about it today for the first time ever.
Do one on Boston's Deadly Molasses Flood
You need to Rush More of these videos ;)
LOL five a week isn't enough? I have to sleep sometime...
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered Thomas Edison supposedly only slept a couple of hours a day, but compared to you, he was a pretender. Get my drift? lol
Could you do a piece on the sculptor? I had always thought that the sculptor was a Danish immigrant who was an explosives expert and that this was his first and only work at the age of 57!
Seems unlikely and is contradicted by information here - but perhaps such a person played a part as an expert assistant?
I always thought it got its name from that Wes Anderson film
I always hope for short ads on ur vids but no matter the length i watch them all for THG! Im doin my part r u?
Thank you!
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered no sir thank you i get real joy from your content. I love history and you take time outta your life to keep it all alive and i cant thank u and you're family enough for tht, you deserve to be compensated either way life just isnt fair
I'm surprised some corporation hasn't bought the naming rights. "The Shrine of Democracy at Mt. Microsoft."
A friend of mine related that a ranger at Mt. Rushmore told him the three stupidest questions they get asked:
3. What do they do with the faces in the winter?
2. Did they know the faces were down there when they started digging?
and (drum roll please)
1. I recognize George and Martha, but who is the other couple up there?
Always loved that word mica don't know why
Did I ever thank you for not playing the theme song makes my brain hurt if I binge on THG
skypilot Mica was the first name of the town sheriff on "The Rifleman". I like it, too.
@@bentnickel7487 yes I remember watching in 2nd grade- that's where I got it- impressionable at that age
Thx for the nostalgia!
I feel a Rushmore coming on....
(Oh, okay.) History Guy, I love your shorts! And your wife! And pets! (There, can we get more now?)
Thank goodness the lawyer wasn't named Lipshitz.
Great, the question I never asked and now I know. So that brings up the next question which I will ask. How did the black hills get their name?
Maybe the workers were told they had to rush more to get it finished...lol.