This is the thrilling story of the life of one of the most heroic Indian warriors and chiefs—Crazy Horse, who fought to the death to save his Sioux people, their freedom and their land.

Shannon Garst, whose books on the early days of the West are well known and very well liked, has made this dramatic biography of a tragic man so real that older boys and girls will feel that they are with Crazy Horse in all his adventures. They will wince with him at this early name, Has-ka, the "light-skinned one", and at the weakness it implied. They will be carried away by his great vision quest, when he received premonition of future leadership. They will marvel at his turning irresponsible Indian warriors into an organized army and they will shudder at the brutality of Custer's last fight, and of the massacres of thousands of Indians.

This is the story of a great man, and Shannon Garst has made it a great book. It is abundantly and movingly illustrated by William Moyers, who also knows the West and has brought Crazy Horse and his people vividly to life in his drawings.

From the dust jacket