Crazy Horse: A Life

Crazy Horse: A Life
ISBN-10
0143034804
ISBN-13
9780143034803
Series
Crazy Horse
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
148
Language
English
Published
2005-12
Publisher
Penguin Books
Author
Larry McMurtry

Description

Strips away the tall tales of legend to reveal the essence of the great Sioux leader Crazy Horse, profiling him as a brilliant and ascetic warrior-hero whose life encapsuled Native American tragedy and the end of the untamed West. Reprint.

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