Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1942.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-422).
Book I The light-haired boy : 1. Cow tracks on the holy road -- 2. The coming of the wagon guns -- 3. The gift of ears -- 4. Soldiers on the blue water -- 5. The Great Teton Council -- 6. The song of a good name. Book II The glorious warrior : 1. Fat times for the people -- 2. Whites like rising flood waters -- 3. The big year -- 4. The hundred in the hands -- 5. So long as grass shall grow -- 6. Many things thrown away. Book III The man of the people : 1. Marriage and the death of a friend -- 2. Death, and the thieves' road -- 3. The great encampment -- 4. Many soldiers falling into camp -- 5. The smoke of victory hangs low -- 6. Sitting on the white man's island -- 7. A red blanket from his own.
"Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to confine the Sioux on reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, one of the last important chiefs to do so, only to meet a violent death. Mari Sandoz, the noted author of Cheyenne Autumn and Old Jules, both available as Bison Books, has captured the spirit of Crazy Horse with a strength and nobility befitting his heroism." -- from Amazon.