CRAZY HORSE : The Strange Man of the Oglalas
by Mari Sandoz
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0803251718
- ISBN 13
- 9780803251717
- Seller
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About This Item
Lincoln, NB: Univ of Nebraska/Bison Book Edition, 1961. First Edition,19th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/surface wear to front cover & trace edge wear. PO label to front cover verso, and faint creasing to first title page. Superb biography of heroic Native-American leader of the Lakota, Crazy Horse (c. 1840 - 1877),. A "strange" biographry in the sense Crazy Horse was before his times in American intellectual history. A story of blood & tears shed in European take over of the Americas. Crazy Horse led his people in defiance against U.S. Gov't's forces in the Great Sioux War of 1876 - 77. Beginning with his leading some 1,500 Lakota & Cheyenne warriors in an successful assault against Brigadier General George Crook's force of 1,000 cavalry & infantry, which contributes to Custer's defeat in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. A chapter in American history. 428 pgs in 19 chapters:, 3 parts: Book I, The Light-Haired Boy; II, The Glorious Warrior; and, III, The Man of the People, followed by a chronology of major events during his life time.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020021
- Title
- CRAZY HORSE : The Strange Man of the Oglalas
- Author
- Mari Sandoz
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition,19th Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0803251718
- ISBN 13
- 9780803251717
- Publisher
- Univ of Nebraska/Bison Book Edition
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln, NB
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Biography/Crazy Horse/Native America/Lakota/Little Bighorn/American Frontier
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology/Ethnology;
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