Crazy Horse (Lives)

Paperback, 128 pages

Published March 2, 2000 by Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-7538-0961-7
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OCLC Number:
42700365

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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 superb 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. Marking the debut of the new Penguin Lives series, McMurtry's Crazy Horse is a masterly exemplar of biography in the short form, illuminating both the man and the …

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Subjects

  • Biography: general
  • USA
  • Biography/Autobiography