Last Living Mount Rushmore Carver Dies At 98

Nearly 400 men and women worked for more than 14 years to carve the images of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln into Mount Rushmore in Keystone, S.D.

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The man believed to be the last living carver of Mount Rushmore has died.

Donald “Nick” Clifford was one of nearly 400 men and women who worked on the iconic American monument. He died on Saturday at a hospice in Rapid City at the age of 98, his wife told NPR.

Clifford, who celebrated his last birthday in July, was immensely proud of his work on the mountainside as a teenager.