'Crazy Horse' is a biography of one of the most famous Native American warriors in recent history. Mari Sandoz, the author, interviewed dozens of Crazy Horse's people in the 1930's, all of them by then old people. From interviews, facts, and letters, she constructed this semi-fictionalized biography of the great Sioux warrior. He is most famous for defeating Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, but there was much more to his life than merely that one battle. The book attempts to describe and chart the lives of Crazy Horse and his Sioux people during the mid to late nineteenth century, during which they were enduring the immense pressures of the United States' Indian Wars, as well as settlers’ pressure on the Sioux land.
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ISBN:9780803251717
ISBN:0803251718
Physical Description:print 428 p ; 20 cm.
Publisher:Lincoln NB : U. of Nebraska, 1961, c1942.
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The light-haired boy: Cow tracks on the holy road; The coming of the wagon guns; The gift of ears; Soldiers on the blue water; The Great Teton council; The song of a good name -- The glorious warrior: Fat times for the people; Whites like rising flood waters; The big year; The hundred in the hands; So long as grass shall grow; Many things thrown away -- The man of the people: Marriage and the death of a friend; Death, and the Thieves' Road; The great encampment; Many soldiers falling into camp; The smoke of victory hangs low; Sitting on the white man's island; A red blanket from his own -- White-man chronology -- Bibliography -- Notes.
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