Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies.
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life is a singular achievement, scholarly and authoritative, offering a complete portrait of the man and a fuller understanding of his place in American Indian and United States history..
To this day, Crazy Horse remains a compelling symbol of resistance for modern Lakotas.
Bray also explores the private tragedies that marred Crazy Horse\'s childhood and the network of relationships that shaped his adult life.
He reassesses the war chief\'s achievements in numerous battles and retraces the tragic sequence of misunderstandings, betrayals, and misjudgments that led to his death.
Bray places Crazy Horse within the rich context of the nineteenth-century Lakota world.
Bray has plumbed interviews of Crazy Horse\'s contemporaries and consulted modern Lakotas to fill in vital details of Crazy Horse\'s inner and public life.
Kingsley M.
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts--and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies--to expose the real Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect but a modest, reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety.
Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend.
His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history.
Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies
