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Amazon.com ReviewIn writing his superb life of Crazy Horse, Larry McMurtry faced the same obstacle as every previous biographer of the Oglala Sioux icon: a notable paucity of facts. This didn't inhibit such chroniclers as Mari Sandoz or Stephen Ambrose (whose dual portrait of Crazy Horse and George Custer featured a certain amount of authorial ventriloquism). In this case, however, the shortage of documentation actually works to the reader's advantage. Unencumbered by reams of scholarly detail, McMurtry's book has the shapeliness and inevitability of a fine novella. The author may describe it as an "exercise in assumption, conjecture, and surmise"--but his phrase does scant justice to this elegant, admirably scrupulous portrait. As McMurtry recounts, Crazy Horse was born around 1840 in what is now South Dakota. Already the arrival of white settlers--who brought with them such mixed blessings as metal tools, firearms, and smallpox--had begun to transform the culture of the Plains Indians. But soon a more ominous note crept into the relationship: "The Plains Indians were beginning to be seen as mobile impediments; what they stood in the way of was progress, a concept dear to the American politician." As whites sought to remove these impediments with increasing brutality, Crazy Horse led his people in a sporadic and ultimately doomed resistance, which peaked at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Within a year the young warrior (and occasional visionary) had surrendered to the United States Army. Four months later he was dead, stabbed in a highly suspicious scuffle with white and Indian policemen, and the Sioux resistance died with its legendary leader. McMurtry's powers of compression are formidable. In no more than a few rapid paragraphs, he gives a sense of how this "prairie Platonist" divided the world into transient things and eternal, invisible spirits. He also conveys his opinion of Caucasian double-dealing with fine, acerbic efficiency: "In August, Custer emerged and described the beauties of the Black Hills in mouthwatering terms. In another life he would have made a wonderful real-estate developer. In this case he sold one of the most beautiful pieces of real estate in the West to a broke, depressed public who couldn't wait to get into those hills and start scratching up gold." McMurtry's Crazy Horse is the leanest and least rhetorical version yet of this American tragedy--which makes it, oddly enough, among the most moving. --James Marcus LS2 PAC - Catalog Log in with either your Library Card Number or EZ Login. Library ID (No Spaces!) or EZ Username Last Name or EZ Password. Remember Me Poetry Book Society - The book club for poetry lovers The Poetry Book Society was founded by T S Eliot in 1953. We are a unique poetry society providing guidance and discounts on the very best contemporary... Twitter goes into meltdown over BBC's Snow Chick: A ... 'Get me a penguin now!' Twitter goes into meltdown over the BBC's Snow Chick with viewers unable to 'deal with the cuteness' Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale aired on ... "Crazy' Spending - Bipolar Lives One of the most common symptoms of bipolar disorder is impulsive and irrational spending. Bipolar expert Dr Ronald R. Fieve describes bipolar excessive spending in ... Caligula - Wikipedia Caligula (/ k l j l /) properly Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August AD 12 24 January AD 41) was Roman emperor from AD 3741. Fun Animal Facts for Kids - Crazy Cool Funny Amazing ... Animal Facts. Enjoy our wide range of fun animal facts for kids. Children will love reading the crazy cool strange weird odd and funny information as well as did ... Health Yahoo Beauty This Birth Photography Project Captures the Special Raw First Moments Between Parents and Their Children Crazy Horse - Wikipedia Crazy Horse even when dying refused to lie on the white man's cot. He insisted on being placed on the floor. Armed soldiers stood by until he died. Penguin Random House Announcements: 6 March 2017. Knopf Author Michael Finkel Uncovers the Story of the Last True Hermit Many people dream of escaping modern life but most will never act ... 5 Famous People With Crazy Second Lives Nobody Knows About Though the average person will bounce around a dozen jobs in their lifetime we tend to assume great historical figures were born to do one thing. Sure Abe Lincoln ...
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