“He has killed me now,” were the reported words of Crazy Horse, one of the greatest chiefs of the Sioux Nations, just after he was bayoneted at about 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday September 5, 1877. The confusing details of this tragic event are well described in The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse, by Carroll Friswold with edited additions by Robert A. Clark. Friswold wrote the book from the viewpoint of three persons who were present on that fateful day at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. First was Chief
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