Today is the birthday of Oglala Sioux military leader Crazy Horse (12/4/1849 – 9/5/1877), of  Little Bighorn fame.

Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas (Second Edition)

By Mari Sandoz

With an introduction by Vine Deloria Jr.

"Sandoz displayed an exquisite sensitivity to the spiritual and cultural
impact of landscape and topography, and intensely conveyed the
emotional, psychological, and religious universe of the Plains Indians.
. . . That sensitivity makes this, the most accomplished biography of
Crazy Horse and one of the best and most moving books ever written
about the American West, a strange, often unsettling work."—Benjamin
Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly.

The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History
Compiled and edited by Richard G. Hardorff

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.

The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse

Edited by Robert A. Clark

Eyewitness accounts combine to give The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse all the starkness and horror of classical tragedy.