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Crazy Horse

The Strange Man of the Oglalas

Crazy Horse( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Sandoz, Mari
Introduction by: Oates, Stephen B.
ISBN:978-0-8032-9211-6
Publication Date:Jan 1992
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:Bison Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:428
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Native American
History / United States / 19Th Century
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.34 x 7.99 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:1.125 Pounds
Author Biography
Sandoz, Mari (Author)
Stephen B. Oates was a Civil War historian and biographer. He was born in Pampa, Texas on January 6, 1936. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a bachelor's degree (1958), earned a Master of Arts degree (1960), and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (1969). From 1968 to 1997, he taught history and biography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

He wrote over 17 books which included, To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown (1970); The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion (1975); With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (1977); Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1982); and A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War (1994). Dr. Oates was an adviser for the Ken Burn's Civil War series (1990). Stephen B. Oates died from pancreatic cancer on August 20, 2021 at his home in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was 85.

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