An account from the Indian point of view of the events of the worst defeat the United States Army suffered at the hands of the Indians.

Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend. This book corrects older, idealized accounts, and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies, to show the real Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect, but a modest, reflective...

After the Civil War, strife continues in the West between Native American tribes, encroaching settlers, and the U.S. Army, as Red Cloud, a Lakota Sioux war leader, unites the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Crow in order to preserve their territory.

A biography of the Sioux leader set against the history of the Indian wars, with a full account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Crazy Horse was known among the Sioux for his generosity, courage, and fierce determination to preserve his people's lands and way of life. As the concept of manifest Destiny drove pioneers and homesteaderst to flock west, Crazy Horse witnessed countless failed treaties and took part in several bloddy skrimishes between Indians and whites. Although he met a tragic end at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, he left and inspriring legacy.