Crazy Horse By Larry Mcmburty Sparknotes

The Old West had many important legendary figures that have an important role today in history. Crazy Horse and Annie Oakley were some of them. They both decided to do some heroic acts that changed the life of many people. Those two heroes were willing to risk their lives to make a difference. Their determination, courage and bravery gave them the chance to do the best they could in the time of need. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurty is a superb biography that looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of Curly known as Crazy Horse. Do you know who Crazy Horse was? According to Larry McMurty “he was born around 1840 by the Belle Fourche River near Bear Butte” . “Curly” was his original name. This name was a reflection of his curving shape of wavy hair and his appearance of the skin. Curly was considerate quiet, distant and mysterious. No one really knew much about him because
The band was located in a raid on an Arapaho camp. The Arapaho were not able to stop Curly when he decided to change into the middle of Arapahos camp and kill two warrior. Since, this event took place he got the name of Crazy Horse by his father and his father got the name of Worm. There were many others battler were Crazy Horse formed part of, some of them were Greasy Grass and Last Stand Hill. He never fell in love until he started to have a kind of interest toward the wife of a man named No Water which did not want to let his woman go. One day No Water’s wife decided to go with Crazy Horse on a small war expedition which caused serious problems. No Water shot Crazy Horse through the face. After this, he got marry with Red Feather’s sister and had a little girl named “They Are Afraid of Her” which died when she had about two years old. Many years later he got marry again with a young half-breed girl. Crazy Horse was killed young but he always fought to keep his people together and free until the