Stolen Crazy Horse statue found; Bronze replica returns home to Black Hills.(NEWS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Jim Adams; Staff Writer

A bronze miniature of the Chief Crazy Horse monument that was stolen about a decade ago is headed home to South Dakota's Black Hills after being found near Stillwater.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office was tipped off by an investigator for the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation that the 90-pound statue was in a home north of Stillwater, said Capt. Don McGlothlin.

"It's a beautiful piece of art," said Sgt. Gary Swanson, who found the statue last week in a home in Stillwater Township.

The bronze is a miniature of the massive ...

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