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Golden Driller | Colossal Statue
Third Tallest Statue in the USA
An enormous golden man ranks after two tall women on the list of the largest statues in the United States. Lady Liberty comes in first at 151 feet followed by Our Lady of the Rockies at 90 feet tall. Half the size of the Statue of Liberty, the 76-foot Golden Driller represents much of the history of his country, its push west and its exploitation of mineral wealth. The giant roustabout celebrated Oklahoma's oil bounty at a time when Tulsa billed itself as "The Oil Capital of the World." In 1...

Colossal Statues of the World
The Colossus of Rhodes Guarded the Harbor
Destroyed by an earthquake in 226 B.C., the Colossus of Rhodes counted as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. At a height of 107 feet high, the statue of Helios, the god of the sun, would stand about eight feet taller than Our lady of the Rockies, which at 90 feet ranks as the second tallest statue in the United States after the 151-foot Statue of Liberty. While the Colossus of Rhodes may have inspired building enormous statues in the West, that impulse dates back millenia in Asia...

Allegory of Sarasota | Seven Virtues of City Called Florida's Cultural Center
Statues Form a Circle near Roundabout
As you walk The Circle known as St Armands in Sarasota, Florida, you sense a story. In the 1920s, circus magnate John Ringling who set in motion much of what makes Sarasota an unusual community, began developing one of America's first shopping centers, St Armands Circle, and bought Italian statues to add a classical theme. Shades of today, Ringling halted the project because of an economic slowdown now known as The Great Depression. Thirty years later, in the late 1950s, St Armands Circle r...

Our Lady of the Rockies | Colossal Statue
The Largest Statue of the Madonna in the USA
Bob O'Bill of Butte, Montana, promised a large statue of the Virgin Mary in a bout of magical thinking when his wife was ill with cancer in the late 1970s. Certainly most of us can identify with this scenario of promising to do something good in exchange for a miracle cure. In this case, when his wife recovered, O'Bill began efforts to keep his promise and to go even bigger. The result is Our Lady of the Rockies, the biggest Madonna statue in the United States and the second largest statue ...

Tribute to Courage | Colossal Statue
Fourth Tallest Statue in the United States
Everything's bigger in Texas or so the saying goes, so that's the state where you find the World's Tallest Statue of an American Hero. At 67 feet tall, Sam Houston ranks fourth in height among monumental statues located in the United State. Lady Liberty at 151 feet ranks at the top of the list. Our Lady of the Rockies ranks second at 90 feet and Tulsa's Golden Driller third at 76 feet tall. Titled "Tribute to Courage," the statue stands as the tallest one in the world that depicts an Americ...