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His parents were James Borglum and Christina Michelson. He was their 2nd child.
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Solon decided to use his cowboy skills that he learned in California and traveled to a Cairo, Nebraska to work.
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This carving was hand carved by Solon to honor White Cloud. This carving was visible for 20 years after it was carved.
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On an unusually warm day the weather had a drastic turn for the worst. A horrible blizzard hit as Solon Borglum was heading home from his neighbors house. His neighbor has just went out to round up his cattle. Solon was able to make it home because his horse knew the way there. After he got home and the storm lightened up, he discovered that his tenderfoot neighbor's horse was running his way with no rider. It was at that moment as Solon realized his neighbor had died during his last round up.
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Solon sketched a snow storm from the Nebraska winter weather.
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Solon was 25 at the time, much older than the other students and arrived a month late.
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While on his honeymoon six months after his wedding, Solon made this sculpture. This sculpture illustrates Dakota Indians dancing in celebration of the 4th of July.
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This is another sculpture Solon made on his honeymoon at the Crow Creek Reservation. He made it right before he left the reservation, it represents a burial that they witnessed on the honeymoon.
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Solon and Emma had their first child.
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Solon and his wife, Emma, had their second child. He was born in Paris but Solon was stuck in New York because he was ill.
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When Solon was in New York he was busy working on other people's statues, but he also started to design and model his own sculptures. These sculptures were sculptures of horses, cowboys, Plains Indians, and other plainsmen. He created his Bronco Buster statue that is mostly called One in a Thousand.
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One day Solon and Emma's oldest child became ill and died. Solon and Emma were grief-stricken.
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Solon had a one-man show including 32 bronze, marble, and other sculptures.
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Not long after Solon's first daughter died he had another daughter.
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This sculpture made by Solon Borglum illustrates a cowboy looking off a bluff, while his horse grazed beside him.
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At the age of 50 Solon went to France in the war. His job was to set up places for soldiers to rest and help them find shelter and comfort.
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Solon Borglum had the idea to open an art school to keep the soldiers that were staying in France out of trouble while they were waiting to go home after the war
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Only three months after it open the art school was closed and Solon got to go home to his family.
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Solon Borglum died due to burst appendix at the age of 53.
