His interest in stone sculpture began after he visited Mount Rushmore in the U.S. in 1990.

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Only the face is now done, and all four heads on Mount Rushmore would fit inside Crazy Horse's head alone.

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Chuck White, Cope's former associate, says Cope now runs a convenience store near Mount Rushmore in South Dakota and plans to build an amusement park nearby.

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But Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum had big dreams, and they included a mountainside series of granite tableaus that would retell significant events in American history.

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And just in case we didn't understand how important the CBS and Warner Bros. bosses were, the big screen flashed an image of their faces superimposed over Mount Rushmore.

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Think of the Statue of Liberty, a French centenary gift to the young United States in 1886, or of the huge presidential heads carved by Gutzon Borglum on Mount Rushmore.

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In some future century, a new Mount Rushmore may be carved, to celebrate the figures of our own era who changed the course of the world as dramatically as any presidents or statesmen.

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There are also nine different elaborate layouts, including the Mount Rushmore corner layout that includes, weirdly, both a miniature replica of the famous monument and the iconic Los Angeles Hollywood sign on the hills below.

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Folks in the Mount Rushmore state may be used to seeing presidents' faces etched in granite, but at the beginning of the primary season, most didn't really expect to see much of the Democratic presidential candidates in the flesh.

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