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1) Crazy Horse

Author

McMurtry, Larry

Series

Penguin lives

Publisher

Lipper/Viking Book

Pub. Date

1999.

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD

Description

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Strips away the tall tales of legend to reveal the essence of Crazy Horse, profiling him as a brilliant and ascetic warrior-hero whose life exemplified Native American tragedy and the end of the untamed West. Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure of American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. Yet his story remains an encapsulation of the Native American tragedy and the death of the untamed West. Crazy Horse...

2) The life and death of Crazy Horse

Author

Freedman, Russell

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the Oglala leader who relentlessly resisted the white man's attempt to take over Indian lands.

3) The Earth is all that lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation

Author

Gardner, Mark Lee

Publisher

Mariner Books

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

Description

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"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars.""--From book jacket.

4) The killing of Crazy Horse

Author

Powers, Thomas

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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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...