The hidden history behind Mount Rushmore
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4.3 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Sherlock Holmes. |
| 0:02.0 | It's an unusual name. |
| 0:03.0 | Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series. |
| 0:07.0 | What game are we playing today? |
| 0:09.0 | Discover the origins. |
| 0:10.0 | It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me. |
| 0:12.0 | Of crime's most iconic mind. |
| 0:14.0 | There has been a break-in. |
| 0:17.0 | Astoned. You should be a detective. |
| 0:19.0 | Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth. |
| 0:22.5 | If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you. |
| 0:25.9 | Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video. |
| 0:35.2 | How did four US presidents, Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, |
| 0:42.4 | come to be carved on the side of a mountain in South Dakota? Why were their faces chosen? And by whom? |
| 0:49.4 | In this episode of the History Extra podcast, Matthew Davis traces how a mountainside in the Black Hills, |
| 0:56.1 | on land vital to the origin stories of the Lakota Nation, came to be a granite canvas for a colossal |
| 1:02.4 | sculpture at Mount Rushmore. Talking to Eleanor Evans, he explores the story of the monument and its |
| 1:09.1 | creation that illuminates the question about whose version of history ends up carved in stone. |
| 1:15.8 | Matthew, thank you so much for joining us on today's History Extra podcast. How are you doing today? |
| 1:19.7 | I am doing great. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here. |
| 1:22.5 | It's a real pleasure. And we're talking about somewhere that I'm sure a lot of people will have seen images of. |
| 1:27.7 | We have a lot of American listeners, so they will probably be aware of this memorial. |
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