On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at
Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose
name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white
encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory. A
young man of slight build and quiet ways dramatically at odds with
his extraordinary influence and stature, he was viewed by the
military as a potential civil leader of all Sioux.
What happened between May 15, 1877, when, anticipating a visit
to the president in Washington, Crazy Horse was sworn in as a
noncommissioned officer in the U.S. military, and September 5,
1877, when he was bayoneted in the back by a military guard, is the
stuff of rumor and legend. And yet, reliable accounts of the last
days of Crazy Horse do exist. The interviews collected in this book
describe in stark detail the surrender and death of Crazy Horse
from the perspective of Indian and mixed-blood contemporaries.
Supplemented by military orders, telegrams, and reports, and
rounded out with dispatches from numerous newspaper correspondents,
these eyewitness accounts compose a unique firsthand view of the
events and circumstances surrounding this tragic episode in Lakota
history.
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