Chapter I: Front Matter

GIVE THE MAN ROOM

BY ROBERT J. CASEY

_Travel_

Four Faces of Siva
Baghdad and Points East
Easter Island
The Land of Haunted Castles
The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy
The Black Hills
The Texas Border

_Personalities_

Such Interesting People
More Interesting People
Mr. Clutch

_War_

The Cannoneers Have Hairy Ears
I Can’t Forget
Torpedo Junction
Battle Below
This Is Where I Came In

_Mystery_

The Secret of No. 37 Hardy Street
The Secret of the Bungalow
Hot Ice
News Reel
The Third Owl

_Romance_

The Gentleman in Armour
Cambodian Quest

_Satire_

The Voice of the Lobster

_Technical_

Manual of Radio Interference

_Verse_

The Vest Pocket Anthology

BY MARY BORGLUM (MARY W. MONTGOMERY)

Told in the Gardens of Araby (with IZORA CHANDLER)

_GIVE THE MAN
ROOM_

_The Story of Gutzon Borglum_

By ROBERT J. CASEY
and MARY BORGLUM

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, INC.
_Publishers_
INDIANAPOLIS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1952, by MARY BORGLUM

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 52-5804

First Edition

To
LINCOLN and LOUELLA,
MARY ELLIS and DAVID

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form.
Its presence is unmistakable in Art or in Life. The measure
of its revelation depends on the measure of our own soul-consciousness,
the boundaries of our own spirit.
--GUTZON BORGLUM

_CONTENTS_

CHAPTER PAGE

1. MOUNTAINTOP 15

2. THE DIM BEGINNING 22

3. ALONE 30

4. CALIFORNIA 36

5. OVERSEAS ART 45

6. ENGLAND 55

7. QUIET IN NEW YORK 66

8. VARIETY OF LIFE IN A STUDIO 79

9. THE BIRTH OF A MYTH 87

10. PUBLIC MEMORIALS 94

11. STAMFORD AND POLITICS 104

12. CHICAGO CONVENTION 113

13. AND DR. TRUDEAU 126

14. AIRCRAFT INVESTIGATION 137

15. FLIGHT, PATIENCE AND SHERIDAN’S HORSE 151

16. WARS OF AMERICA MEMORIAL 159

17. STONE MOUNTAIN 171

18. THE IMPERISHABLE MONUMENT 182

19. THE EMERGENCE OF LEE 195

20. MONEY 204

21. AFTERMATH 214

22. BACKSIGHT 220

23. AND SO FORWARD 230

24. TRIBUTE TO WILSON 238

25. FOR THE PARKS 244

26. THE CZECHO-SLOVAK ARMY 250

27. THE NOBLE SPORT 255

28. FRIENDS AND HOME 263

29. SHRINE OF DEMOCRACY 275

30. DEDICATION 284

31. CARVING THE MOUNTAIN 293

32. CONVERSATION 300

33. --AND FINAL PEACE 309

INDEX 321

_LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS_

Gutzon Borglum _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Interior of 38th Street Studio 30

Model of Angel’s Face 31

Borglum Working in First Improvised Studio at Stamford 40

“Dr. Trudeau,” The Beloved Physician 41

“General Sheridan” 56

“Wars of America” Model 57

“Abraham Lincoln” 64

Gutzon and Mary Borglum 65

Stone Mountain 96

Working Platform Near Summit of Stone Mountain 96

Model of Stone Mountain Group 97

Stone Mountain, Showing Superimposed Carving of Central Group 128

North Carolina Memorial at Gettysburg 129

“The Trail Drivers” 160

The Borglums’ Daughter 161

Woodrow Wilson Memorial at Poznan 192

Torso and Leg of Dancer 193

Gutzon Borglum and Son Lincoln 224

Lincoln Borglum 225

Lincoln and Gutzon Borglum in Hoist 256

Plaster Model in Mountain Studio 257

View of Rushmore Showing Heads of the Four Presidents 288

F.D.R. at the Unveiling of Jefferson, August 1936 289

GIVE THE MAN ROOM