Crazy Horse: The Life Behind the Legend

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

The first full-length biography in over fifty years of the famed Native American chief Called "one of the bravest of the brave," Crazy Horse was a great Native American warrior, a born soldier with a talent for leadership of the highest order. Along with Sitting Bull, he led the monumental Sioux-Cheyenne Uprising of 1876-77, which culminated at Little Big Horn, where General George Custer's entire force was annihilated. Now acclaimed author Mike Sajna brings this legendary warrior back to life in this book about his epic struggle to save his way of life amid the westward movement of white settlers. Sajna follows Crazy Horse from his days as a young boy chasing down wild horses to his later years, including new views on his role in the Battle of Little Big Horn and eventual surrender and murder. Meticulously researched and based on an extensive collection of historic records, Crazy Horse separates the facts from the many myths that have been passed down about the Oglala chief. Mike Sajna (Pittsburgh, PA) was a freelance journalist and writer, and the author of Days on the Water, The Allegheny River: Watershed of the Nation, and Buck Fever: The Deer Hunting Tradition in Pennsylvania.

Author Biography

MIKE SAJNA is a columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the author of several books including Days on the Water, The Allegheny River: Watershed of the Nation, and Buck Fever: The Deer Hunting Tradition in Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
``Crazy Horse with Us''
1(7)
Buffalo People
8(16)
Indian Boyhood
24(14)
Manifest Destinies
38(17)
Prairie Travelers
55(17)
The Great Smoke
72(12)
Buffalo and War
84(7)
The Cow
91(13)
A Death and a Life
104(8)
Blue Water
112(15)
Crazy Horse
127(12)
The Warrior
139(8)
Nations Divided
147(9)
Love and War
156(13)
Shirt-Wearer
169(8)
Platte Bridge
177(11)
One Hundred White Men Killed
188(15)
Wagon Box Fight
203(9)
Victory
212(9)
Love and Death
221(10)
Agency Indians
231(14)
Chief of All the Thieves
245(11)
Paha Sapa
256(15)
Greasy Grass
271(19)
Killing Long Hair
290(10)
Peace
300(29)
Notes 329(24)
Bibliography 353(6)
Index 359

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