SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Deadwood's Wild Bill Hickok bust created from Crazy Horse debris
This week in South Dakota history: June 19-25
A piece of the largest sculpture in the world came to Deadwood 75 years ago this week.
Made of material blasted from the Crazy Horse Memorial, a granite bust of Wild Bill Hickok by Korczak Ziolkowski was unveiled before thousands, according to the June 22, 1951, edition of the Deadwood Pioneer-Times.
Born in Boston in 1908, Ziolkowski worked as a carpenter in a local shipyard, where he learned the skills necessary to become a carver. Initially working in wood, he made his first marble sculpture in 1932, honoring the death of a Boston judge that Ziolkowski had known as a child, according to the South Dakota Hall of Fame.
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