A warrior's lust for freedom pulses through `Crazy Horse'

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: January 3, 1999| Author: MICHAEL HOPKINS | Copyright information

Crazy Horse: A Penguin Life. By Larry McMurtry. Viking. 142 pages. $19.95.

In his short biography "Crazy Horse," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry gives us an overview of the facts and myths surrounding the life of the great Sioux warrior, who had burning at his core the essence of the American spirit: a lust for freedom.

Crazy Horse was born around 1840 and grew to be a loner who loved to wander the Southwestern plains and desert. During his era, there were no mecha...

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