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Winter, 2007
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Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life. By Kingsley M. Bray. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xviii + 510 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

      Kingsley Bray, an English medical-book dealer, offers a scholarly, deeply researched biography of Crazy Horse, who epitomized Indian resistance to whites. Outstanding among a spate of recent works about the renowned Oglala war chief, this might be the definitive work. Bray employs over twenty years of research, abetted by his many contacts with leading western historians in Europe and the United States. 1
      Although thoroughly mining contemporary Indian agent reports, personal military diaries, and annual reports of the United States Commission of Indian Affairs, Bray concedes they remain sketchy and fragmentary regarding Crazy Horse. Because Crazy Horse remains somewhat of an enigma, his story encourages too much speculation. Bray's work is complemented by seventeen well-annotated black and white illustrations, seven useful maps, seventy-six pages of endnotes, and a seventeen-page bibliography. . . .

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