The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-23

tablet which tells the passer-by that near this spot September 5, 1877, Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux was kllled--dying as he had lived a fighting man.
 Chief Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witko) was only thirty-three years old when his warrior career ended, but he had already written his name high In the annals of the Old West Al though he was the principal leader in the two greatest victories ever by his people over the white men, 1t the Irony of fate that in each case credit for the achievement should be given to another Sioux chief whose name and fame happened to be more familiar to the white men than was Crazy Horses. One of them was Red Cloud, whom most historians record as be ing the leader In the so-called "Fetterman Mas sacre" near Fort Phil Kearney, Wyo., In 1866, despite the testimony of Indian survivors that he was neither in command that day nor did he have any hand In planning or carrying out the ambush of Fetterman's il-fated command The other was Sitting Bull, who is popularly (and erroneously) believed to have been mainly re- sponslble for the maneuvers of the Indians which resulted in the disaster to Busters command on the Little Big Horn in Montana ten years later.
 Crazy Horse was born in 1914, the son of an Ogaa Sioux chief of the same name Ills mother died when he two years old, but his step mother who was also his aunt, raised him as her own Trained by her and his father in the rigorous physical regime required of young boys of the Sioux, he early learned the lessons of cour age selfdenial, generosity, modesty, truthfuness and fair dealing which so strongly characterized his later life. A fine horseman and a skllful hunter, he joined his first party when he was only sixteen years old and by the time of the first serious war between the Sioux and the whites QS66) Crazy Horses tribesmen looked to him as principal war leader, and even the Cheyenne chiefs, allies of the Sioux, practically acknowledged his leadership.
 Although Crazy Horse had distinguished him self In the Fetterman battle and at the famous Wagon Box Fight year later, he rose to his greatest heights as general in 1876 and 1877. On June IT, 1876, he attacked the army of Gen. George Crook the Rosebud river In Montana and fought that experienced Indian-ighter to a standStill, thus breaking up the army's plan of campaign and making certain the annlhilaton of Clusters command a week later The only army officer who defeated him fairly and square ly was Gen. Nelson A. Miles (Bear Coat') who did that at Battle butte In the Wolf mountains in Montana on January 8, 1877, an engagement which led directly to Crazy Horses surrender a few months later.
 By this time the hostile Sioux had begun to realize that the white man was too powerful for them. Through the influence of Chief Spotted Tail of the Brue Sioux, uncle of Crazy Horse, the OBlala cIheitaln was persuaueu to come III to Fort Robinson, Neb., and surrender, which he did on May 6, 1S77
 At the time of Crazy Horses surrender. his wife was suffering from tuberculosis, and the medical care given her by Dr. V. T. McGilly- cuddy a surgeon with the Third cavalry. not only won for him the friendship of the Ogaa chief but also the name of Wasicu Wakan, the White Miracle Man and Tasunka Witko KOa, "the Friend of Crazy Horse" The events lead ing up to Crazy Horses death are told In this irst-hand account by Doctor McGillycuddy, who is still living in California:
 Tn September, 1877, General Crook held an important council at Fort Robinson with Crazy Horse. was in the Indian camp that day and the council a heated one. It finally broke up with no results except to create the belief in Crooks mind that Crazy Horse was meditat Ing assertion and an attempt to rejoin Sitting Bull who was still In Canada where he had