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Summary: This book should be read by any boy age 10 and up
Review: An incredible telling of the inspirational life of a great leader. Moving and well told. A must read for anyone who has ever felt that they didn't fit in, particularly those who worry if they will ever make it in society. Here is a boy who is belittled and mistreated, who feels as if he doesn't belong, who grows to be the greatest leader his people have known.
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Summary: eye opening
Review: as a 50 year old man i was brought up thinking that indians were merely killers who took joy in killing any white man they found for no particular reason. after all that is what our school books ( at least back then ) and the movies said they were like. but after reading this factual book about the greatest warrior of the lakota, i have to say i was suprised to find that these people were not the same as i read about and saw on the movie screen. it gives one some insight into what they were really like. the way they lived, interacted with each other &other indians, fought, and died for what they believed. it tells about a great man who gave all for his people, and how he and the people lived in a time when the white man was pushing west. in my opinion i would say this book is more accurate than most of the books i have read on the subject. it gives one a feeling you are there experiencing what was happening at the time, and the fear and joy crazy horse and his people felt. it also shows that these people were not blood thirsty like we were led to believe, but human beings just like everyone else. with that , one can see why they did some of the things they had to do to survive. if you want to know what it was like to be an indian in the mid 1800"s or want to know what a real warrior was like read this book
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Summary: I read Crazy Horse 25 years ago
Review: as part of an undergraduate course on revolutionary heroes. As I came to the end of the book, I put it down so that Crazy Horse would still be alive in my imagination. I finished it some months later. Ten years ago I read it to my son when he was 6. This is great book about a remarkable man.
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Summary: One of the best biographies ever written
Review: For two years in college, I studied with Stephen B. Oates, who wrote the Foreword to this edition. An award-winning biographer of Lincoln, King, Nat Turner, John Brown, and others, Oates often told his classes that in his opinion, Mari Sandoz's Crazy Horse was the best biography ever written. His chief reason was Ms. Sandoz's ability to make the reader feel as though he or she is in the actual time and place where Crazy Horse lived, and the quality and style of her language, which has the feel of an oral history told by an Oglala elder at a ritual ceremony. I first read the book in Oates' class in 1985 then recently bought the newer edition with his contribution and read it again. Oates is a very wise man (and an extraordinary writer himself!).
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Summary: An Epic worth reading
Review: I am normally the type of person who has no patience for epic tales. When an author gets too long winded, I jump to the end.However, this book has the rhythm and impact of a well told story. No one can really say how historically accurate the book is, but it as close to hearing the saga Crazy Horse told as his peers would have told it as the English language allows.
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Summary: It helped me understand a culture of a misrepresented people
Review: I have lived in Nebraska and Wyoming all of my life and currently enjoy hunting the same lands as Crazy Horse. I first read this book in 1974 during the uprising on the Pine Ridge Reservation. I have since then stood at the site where Fetterman was killed and other areas that Crazy Horse and his people lived and died. I have read the book two more times. The last being this summer.The book moved me as a teen and still today. I have used it as a lesson for myself to be tolerant of other societys. Another book of intrest is The Killing of Custer. In this book it further talks about how Crazy Horse saw the end of his people by accepting hand outs from the goverment.
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Summary: A very well written book about a great Indian
Review: I read this book some days ago, and I am deeply impressed on both the life of Crazy Horse and the way Ms. Sandoz told it to the reader. Since long I have been reading books about Plains Indians and their wars and had a special interest in the person of Crazy Horse. But I had not expected that this strange man, hardly to be understood by his own people, would have become so vivid to me. Ms. Sandoz book is by far better than that of Stephen E. Ambrose who often quoted her, because unlike him she was able to tell it from the Indian point of view and did not always evaluate what she wrote about. Crazy Horse was an Indian hero as out of a Greek tragedy alway doing the best for his people but condemned to be beaten by unmeasureably stronger forces than those of his people. I think he will keep in my heart and brain.
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Summary: The story of Crazy Horse in the language of the Indian.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Not only did I hear the story of the great warrior Crazy Horse but I heard it in a style distinctly Indian. I am certain I will read it again soon!
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Summary: It doesn't do a good job of grabbing your attention.
Review: I'm the kind of person who loves a book that makes you want to never put it down.This book is nothing of the type.I was doing a research project and when I went in to get this book it was sitting on the shelf all dusty like it had never been touched. Now I know why.
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Summary: Recommended
Review: Immerse yourself in the life and mind of the Oglala Lakota with Sandoz's biography of Crazy Horse. In his preface, Steven Oates perhaps best summarized the book in writing "by incorporating the Indian oral tradition into her narrative...Sandoz got closer to the truth of Crazy Horse and his world, and thus to the truth of history, than she could ever have done had she adhered strictly to "facts" taken from the written records of the white people." Although she had been accused by some of putting words in Crazy Horse's mouth with her style and use of oral history, Sandoz was no slouch as a historian. The book was a dozen years in the making and meticulously researched. As I read the story of Crazy Horse, I found myself so captivated by his story, and by Sandoz's retelling of it, that I was somehow hoping to be saved from the inevitable, tragic conclusion to the life of this truly heroic American. Anyone with an interest in American history must read this book.
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