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Show 1 h the other members of the team - they were sharp-looking professionals, the kind of people she'd feel priveleged to viork with. Janey was the only woman in the group. The twenty-four outside rangers reinforced the Mount Rushmore ranger staff and the park police. They were divided into a day shift and a night shift, each team to work twelve-hour stretches of duty. Janey drew the day shift. Every morning brought a different duty - patrolling the visitors' paths in the park-like area, riding patrol cars on the roads to viatch for possible demonstrators. More strenuous vias the foot patrol on the sides of the mountain leading to the four stone faces. For twelve hours Janey and a partner would hike through brush and trees to scan the area, making sure that no one vias trying to scale the elevation. There viere no foot paths because visitors viere not allowed on the mountain. Most dramatic vias duty atop 6,200-foot Mount Rushmore. Janey and four or five other rangers made the 30-rcinute climb carrying food to last them through the twelve-hour shift. From the top they had a viide view of the visitors' center below and the surrounding Black Hills, dark with thick stands of conifers. Janey and the others tried to stay just behind the heads so that visitors, looking up at the carved faces through binoculars, would not be aviare that the mountain vias being heavily guarded against any possible threat to the memorial. When American artist Gutzon Borglum sculpted the mountain during the years between 1927 and 19^1, he began to build a vault behind the stone heads. Janey took time to explore the open enclosure. Borglum planned that the walls of the granite vault should be inscribed with |