Crazy Horse Memorial on Tuesday

We are spending our second night in Custer, SD. We went to the Crazy Horse memorial today but the whole mountain that has the Crazy Horse Memorial sculpture was hidden by fog. There is a nice museum there so we had plenty to see while there. It was really interesting. We had been by there before on trips but never had stopped. We are glad we went.
Work on the memorial started in 1948 and has been done continually since then. The sculptor that started it in 1948 and devoted his life to it passed away in 1982 and his offspring continues the work today. Just the head of Crazy Horse on the memorial is big enough that all the presidents on Mt Rushmore would fit there. Chief Crazy Horse was a great chief but was killed when a US soldier stabbed him in the back with a bayonet.

This is what the completed memorial will look like. (The white sculpture, not Reta.) Crazy Horse's face is the part that is now completed on the mountain.

We could not even see across the parking lot. The red car in the lower right of the photo had Sullivan county tags and had a car lot sticker on it from Kingsport. This is the only Tennessee car we have seen in a couple of days. While we were at the memorial, our thermometer indicated it was 38 degrees.

Near the Crazy Horse Memorial is the small town of Hill City. Looks like a nice place. 

A native American from the Pine Ridge reservation doing the ring dance.