Crazy Horse: A Life

Crazy Horse: A Life

Cover of Crazy Horse: A Life
Author	Larry McMurtry
Language	English
Subject	Crazy Horse (Lakota leader)
Genre	Biography
Publisher	Penguin Books
Publication date	1999
Publication place	United States

Crazy Horse: A Life is a 1999 American book by Larry McMurtry about Crazy Horse. It is a "short life" book. McMurtry was offered to do one on Custer but did Crazy Horse instead. ^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Peter Aykroyd of The New York Times wrote "Crazy Horse remains a figure trapped in a history that he himself only partly understood, and the narrative must essentially remain at the level of supposition rather than of truth. McMurtry is good at the less intimate moments, however, when he suggests that mutual incomprehension between white settlers and Indians led to sporadic and at first inconclusive warfare. And this apparently objective story is striated with the gleams and intimations of the novelist shrouded within the biographer." ^[3]

References

1. McMurtry, Larry (12 August 1999). "Custer Fixation?". New York Review.
2. Review of book at Publishers Weekly
3. Aykroyd, Peter (10 January 1999). "Biography: The Short Form". New York Times.