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Autumn, 2001
  
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Book Review

Crazy Horse: The Life Behind the Legend. By Mike Sajna. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. xi + 367 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)

     This book may disappoint readers expecting an in-depth biography of Crazy Horse. The title should, perhaps, be replaced by something like "The Times of Crazy Horse." The author uses Crazy Horse as a vehicle to examine Native American history on the Great Plains during the nineteenth century, but the man graces remarkably few pages. In fairness to Mike Sajna, Crazy Horse did not leave many sources for historians and biographers. Furthermore, writing a biography of such a powerful and mysterious figure, someone whose reputation rested (and rests) to a large degree on resisting and avoiding whites, whose likeness was never painted or photographed, presents a daunting challenge. . . .

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