Crazy Horse
By: Larry McMurtry.
Series: Penguin lives; Penguin lives series.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Crazy Horse, ca. 1842-1877; Oglala Indians -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This biography looks back across more than one hundred and twenty years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

With his uncanny gift for understanding the human psyche, Larry McMurtry animates the character of this remarkable figure, whose betrayal by white representatives of the U.S. government was a tragic turning point in the history of the West. A mythic figure puzzled over by generations of historians, Crazy Horse emerges from McMurtry's sensitive portrait as the poignant hero of a long-since-vanished epoch.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148).
"A Lipper/Viking book."