Crazy Horse

• First Published - 1942
• Great Plains Series
• Award - 2007 One Book, One Nebraska

• Crazy Horse, the legendary Oglala Lakota whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being “strange,” fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government’s efforts to confine the Lakotas to reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, only to meet a violent death.

  More than a century later Crazy Horse continues to hold a special place in the hearts and minds of not only his people, but people around the world. Mari Sandoz’ biography was the first to be published on Crazy Horse and all subsequent biographies mention her groundbreaking work.

• “Here is a glorious hero tale told with beauty and power . . . the story of a great American.”—John G. Neihardt, New York Times
• “The urge to shape political policy and attitudes by capturing an aura of her subjects is best exemplified by Sandoz’s passionate intensity in the writing of the book Crazy Horse.” —Mary Dixon, Great Plains Quarterly
• “This book is an unflinching eye opener to the barbarism perpetrated against the Lakota, and the recompense (or rather lack of it) that ensued.”—Byron Peterson, Nebraska Report