Why don’t we have any confirmed photos of Crazy Horse? Dan Winrow Sioux Falls, South Dakota Jeff Barnes, a fifth-generation Nebraskan and author of a guide to posts of the Plains Indian Wars, says, “There are varied reasons given—he supposedly told Indian agent Valentine McGillycuddy, who wanted to have a photograph made, ‘My friend, why should you shorten my life by taking from me my shadow?’ Also, he may not have been willing to satisfy the curiosity of whites wondering what h


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