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The Killing Of Crazy Horse
Thomas Powers
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
November 2010
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Featuring: Crazy Horse
592 pages
ISBN: 0375414460
EAN: 9780375414466
Hardcover
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“One of the finest books yet written about the American
West” —Larry McMurtry He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth
century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of
Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the
frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal
custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the many sources
of fear and misunderstanding that resulted in an official
killing hard to distinguish from a crime. A rich cast of
characters, whites and Indians alike, passes through this
story, including Red Cloud, the chief who dominated Oglala
history for fifty years but saw in Crazy Horse a dangerous
rival; No Water and Woman Dress, both of whom hated Crazy
Horse and schemed against him; the young interpreter Billy
Garnett, son of a fifteen-year-old Oglala woman and a
Confederate general killed at Gettysburg; General George
Crook, who bitterly resented newspaper reports that he had
been whipped by Crazy Horse in battle; Little Big Man, who
betrayed Crazy Horse; Lieutenant William Philo Clark, the
smart West Point graduate who thought he could “work”
Indians to do the Army’s bidding; and Fast Thunder, who
called Crazy Horse cousin, held him the moment he was
stabbed, and then told his grandson thirty years later,
“They tricked me! They tricked me!” At the center of the story is Crazy Horse himself, the
warrior of few words whom the Crow said they knew best among
the Sioux, because he always came closest to them in battle.
No photograph of him exists today. The death of Crazy Horse was a traumatic event not only in
Sioux but also in American history. With the Great Sioux War
as background and context, drawing on many new materials as
well as documents in libraries and archives, Thomas Powers
recounts the final months and days of Crazy Horse’s life not
to lay blame but to establish what happened.
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