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TIL that Robinson, the designer of Mount Rushmore, initially wanted to sculpt the likenesses of Western heroes like Oglala Lakota leader of Red Cloud, the explorers Lewis and Clark, and Buffalo Bill Cody into stones pinnacles next to the current location of the monument

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