In Popular Culture
- Borglum is mentioned in the 1996 film, My Fellow Americans as having carved Mount Rushmore.
- Borglum is mentioned in the 2007 film, National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets as having to construct the monument at Mount Rushmore in order to disguise the natural, physical landmarks that would lead to the location of the lost city of gold, Cibola.
- Borglum is a prominent character in the 2010 novel, Black Hills, by Dan Simmons.
- The October 19, 2011 episode of Brad Meltzer's Decoded examines a conspiracy theory that Mount Rushmore was actually a white supremacy monument built for Borglum's KKK contacts.
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