Crazy Horse never let anyone take his picture. Now his face is a mountain
Crazy Horse came in to Camp Robinson, Nebraska, on 6 May 1877, and for four months he was the most famous man on the post. There were photographers working there that year, and the Army doctor who treated his wife kept asking for a picture.
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Sources
Sources
- John G. Bourke, On the Border with Crook (1891)
- Report of the Secretary of War (1877), with the reports of Sheridan and Crook; Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1877)
- Cheyenne Daily Leader, 26 May and 6 September 1877; New-York Tribune, 7 September 1877; and other papers of May and September 1877 (Chronicling America, Library of Congress)
- Telegram, Bradley to Sheridan, 6 September 1877, National Archives
- "Chief Crazy Horse, His Career and Death", Nebraska History Magazine 12:1 (1929), with the accounts of Jesse M. Lee and V. T. McGillycuddy
- William Garnett's statement of 1920, in P. E. Byrne, Soldiers of the Plains (1926); the Garnett and McGillycuddy letters, 1926-27
- Joe DeBarthe, The Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard (1894)
- Randy Kane, "What Did Crazy Horse Look Like?", Nebraska History, Winter 2018
- Public Law 102-393, sec. 633 (1992); Hornell Brewing Co. v. Brady, 819 F. Supp. 1227 (E.D.N.Y. 1993)
- Minnesota Public Radio and Indian Country Today on the apology, April 2001; Voice of America, September 2003; Billings Gazette, November 2003
- American Heritage, June 1977
Pictures
- portraits by James H. Hamilton, Mathew Brady and Levin Handy, D. F. Barry, Henry Ulke, John K. Hillers, W. H. Jackson, Mitchell & McGowan, D. S. Mitchell, Orlando Scott Goff and John N. Choate; L. A. Huffman, Frank La Roche and Heyn & Matzen; Red Horse's drawings of the Little Bighorn (1881); Frederic Remington; Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1877); Fort Robinson by the Detroit Publishing Co. (1898); Korczak Ziolkowski by the U.S. Forest Service; the National Park Service; the Eagleton Courthouse, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri; Billy Garnett, Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives; Two Strike and Crow Dog's camp, Pine Ridge, 1890, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument; Chief No Neck by George E. Spencer, about 1893; Rep. Frank Wolf, official portrait; Elaine Quiver, photograph by Jim Kent; Seth Big Crow's memorial card, via Find a Grave; John Stroh III, 1992, Stroh Brewery Company collection, Detroit Historical Society; the grave of Pvt. William Gentles, via Find a Grave; Library of Congress; National Archives.
Film
- Rodman Wanamaker expedition films (1913), United News (1945) and Four Faces on a Mountain (National Park Service, 1973), National Archives; Fallen Eagle (1950, National Film Preservation Foundation, Internet Archive); When Black Is 'Read' (Ford Educational Weekly, 1919); South Dakota Saga (Homestake Mining Company, about 1940, Prelinger Archives); TR's Inauguration, 1905, Library of Congress.
Credits
- Crazy Horse Memorial by Ahzoov, CC BY-SA 4.0; by Roche de Guzman, CC BY-SA 4.0; from the visitor center by Jeffreylcooke, CC BY-SA 4.0; by arthursmello, CC BY 3.0. Lt. William P. Clark with Little Hawk, via Demetrio Četáņ Čík'ala, CC BY-SA 4.0. Rosebud Battlefield by Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0. Kentucky Fried Chicken, Tilbury, by Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0. KFC sign, Tallulah, by Ktkvtsh, CC BY 4.0. River Crow Trading Post, Crow Agency, by Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0. Malt liquor photographs by Jengod, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sweetgrass offering by Thayne Tuason, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mission, South Dakota, by Jared Winkler, CC BY-SA 4.0. Black Hills outside Deadwood by Votesmall, CC BY-SA 4.0. Missouri River in winter by Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0. Great Sioux Nation expropriations map by Carl Sack, CC BY 4.0. Bertsch stereoscopic camera by Sukkoria, CC BY-SA 4.0.