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WELCOME to Conversations With Crazy Horse Source Materials. This free American history study resource features 100 Voices, the largest and most complete collection of Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, Arikara and American eye-witness accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn available anywhere, in any form, plus a raft of other related eye-witness documents such as The Complete Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger and The Wintercount of Crazy Horse's Life, all globally searchable for the first time ever, right here. Enjoy!
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100 Voices: Full List * Crow/Arikara * Sioux/Cheyenne * American * Rosebud * Museum
Guided Tours: Crazy Horse at the Little Bighorn * Crazy Horse at the Rosebud
Features: Who Killed Custer - Top 10 List * Bogus Crazy Horse Photos * MIA Scout Mystery
Features: Woman Warriors * American Atrocities * Winter Count of Crazy Horse's Life
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Crazy Horse in Action...
Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho and American...
Eyewitness accounts of Crazy Horse at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
presented in chronological order, beginning before the battle...
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Spotted Calf
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse declined to join the celebration on the night of June 17, 1876 after his great victory at the Battle of the Rosebud because he said he expected another battle with the Americans soon...
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Two Moon
Cheyenne war chief
Crazy Horse welcomed battle with the American invaders...
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He Dog
Sioux war chief
On the morning of June 25, 1876, the Sioux scout Fast Horn brought word to Crazy Horse and the other free Sioux and Cheyenne war chiefs that Custer's troops were at the Crow's Nest at dawn, only a few hours ride from the Indians' village on the Little Bighorn River...
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Foolish Elk
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse scrambled a party of Cheyenne decoy/scouts to intercept and engage the American soldiers, if they approached the village...
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Yellow Nose
Cheyenne holy man
Crazy Horse and Yellow Nose were bathing in the Little Bighorn River when they heard shots...
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Red Feather
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse couldn't find his horse...
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William Bordeaux
Sioux chronicler
Crazy Horse seemed uncharacteristically "nervous" after the American attack on the village began, and "rode in a feverish manner to the lodges of the various tribal leaders for brief talks with them..."
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Standing Bear
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse's warriors became "impatient..."
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Horn Chips
Sioux holy man
Crazy Horse consulted with Soux holy man Long Turd...
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William Bordeaux
Sioux chronicler
Crazy Horse was again "his cool and wary self..."
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Billy Garnett
Indian Agency interpreter
Before joining the battle, Crazy Horse talked to his men, telling them to "restrain their ardor" and obey his commands...
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William Bordeaux
Sioux chronicler
Crazy Horse told his men to remember "the lives of our women and children are in danger..."
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Red Hawk
Sioux war chief
Crazy Horse told his men: "Do your best and let us kill them all..."
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William Bordeaux
Sioux chronicler
Crazy Horse told his men: "As soon as you are mounted, follow me toward the river..."
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Red Feather
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse was late getting into the Reno fight...
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Ohiyesa
Sioux chronicler
Gall, Rain In The Face and Crow King led the Indians in the early fighting against Reno, halting the American advance and then forcing Reno's men to fall back into the timber along the Little Bighorn River...
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Black Elk
Sioux holy man
Reno had just retreated into the timber when Black Elk heard the "thunder of the ponies charging" and the cry "Crazy Horse is coming!"...
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Iron Hawk
Sioux warrior
"Presently, Crazy Horse, having collected his warriors, made a dash for the soldiers in the timber and ran into them..."
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Standing Bear
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse's first charge of the battle "broke Reno's left wing..."
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Red Feather
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse rode among the fleeing soldiers...
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Flying Hawk
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse killed many American soldiers as they ran for their lives...
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Eagle Elk
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse caught a loose horse...
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Daniel Kanipe
U.S. Army
Meanwhile, Custer took the bait that Crazy Horse's Cheyenne decoys offered, which separated Custer from Reno, and set up what was then the worst military defeat in American history...
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Red Horse
Sioux war chief
"Word passed among the Indians like a whirlwind" that Custer was riding to attack the Cheyenne circle at the other end of the village...
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Foolish Elk
Sioux warrior
The Indians fighting Reno saw Custer's troops charge along the ridge and fire down into the village...
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Short Bull
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse disengaged from Reno and turned to attack Custer, which he predicted would be the big fight...
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White Cow Bull
Sioux warrior
Before Crazy Horse could get there, though, Custer attacked the village at Medicine Tail Coulee and was shot out of the saddle in the middle of the Little Bighorn River by White Cow Bull...
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Kill Eagle
Sioux war chief
"Vast numbers of Indians" rushed straight at Custer's now leaderless troops and drove the Americans back up the hill...
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Mrs. Spotted
Horn Bull
Sioux observer
Crazy Horse led a strong party of Cheyennes across the Little Bighorn River to flank Custer's decapitated command...
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Flying Hawk
Sioux warrior
Circling around behind Custer's troops, Crazy Horse gave his horse to Flying Hawk while he sniped the Seventh Cavalry soldiers on Calhoun Hill and studied the situation...
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Drags The Rope
Sioux youth
New recruits like Drags The Rope swelled Crazy Horse's forces...
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He Dog
Sioux war chief
Crazy Horse led the charge that split Custer's right flank on Calhoun Hill into "two bunches"...
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Red Feather
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse rode between the split portions of Custer's right flank blowing on his eagle horn...
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Lazy White Bull
Sioux warrior
Lazy White Bull claimed he rode ahead of Crazy Horse when Crazy Horse made his famous dash between the split portions of Custer's right flank, but no one else remembered it that way...
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Foolish Elk
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse led a charge that hit a portion of Custer's disintegrating line head on, and then split and "slashed at it from both sides" as the warriors rode the length of the Bluecoats' line...
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Ohiyesa
Sioux chronicler
Crazy Horse, Ice Bear and Little Horse led the charge that annihilated the last troopers at the crest of Last Stand Hill...
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Flying Hawk
Sioux warrior
At the very end, Crazy Horse rode after, caught, and killed an American trooper who tried to escape on a fast horse...
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Water Man
Arapaho warrior
Waterman said Crazy Horse was "the bravest man" he ever saw...
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Little Soldier
Sioux warrior
Little Soldier said Crazy Horse was the "greatest warrior" at the battle...
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Crow King
Sioux war chief
Crow King said Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were the "great chiefs" of the battle...
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Horn Chips
Sioux holy man
Crazy Horse killed 16 American soldiers at the Battle of the Little Bighorn...
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Crazy Horse
Sioux war chief
Crazy Horse on when Custer was killed...
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Crazy Horse in Action...
Sioux, Cheyenne and American...
Eyewitness accounts of Crazy Horse at the Battle of the Rosebud
presented in chronological order, beginning just before the battle...
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Weasel Bear
Cheyenne warrior
"Word was sent to Crazy Horse..."
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Gall
Sioux war chief
Crazy Horse was the Indian commander at the Battle of the Rosebud...
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Lazy White Bull
Sioux warrior
The Sioux / Cheyenne force rode all night to strike Crook on the Rosebud...
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John Bourke
U.S. Army
Crazy Horse's plan for a grand trap at the Battle of the Rosebud...
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Frank Grouard
U.S. Army Scout
Half of the American soldiers would have been killed in Crazy Horse's first charge, if not for the valor of Crook's Crow and Shoshoni scouts...
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Anson Mills
U.S. Army
"The Indians came not in a line but in flocks or herds like buffalo, and they piled upon us until I think there must have been one thousand or fifteen hundred in our immediate front..."
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John Finerty
U.S. Army
Crazy Horse's first charge, and the Americans' counter-charge...
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Little Hawk
Cheyenne warrior
Cheyenne woman warrior, Buffalo Calf Road, rescued her brother, Comes In Sight, whose horse was shot out from under him on the first charge...
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Short Bull
Sioux warrior
"Crazy Horse, Bad Heart Bull, Black Deer, Kicking Bear and Good Weasel rallied the Sioux..."
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Young Two Moon
Cheyenne war chief
"There was now fighting all along the line..."
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John Bourke
U.S. Army
"The Sioux and the Cheyenne were extremely bold and fierce..."
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John Finerty
U.S. Army
The "wild foemen" and their savage style of fighting...
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Anson Mills
U.S. Army
"The Indians proved then and there that they were the best cavalry soldiers on earth..."
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John Finerty
U.S. Army
Humpy rescued Sgt. Van Moll...
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Lazy White Bull
Sioux warrior
One Bull rescued Rooster; Lazy White Bull rescued mortally wounded Black Sun...
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John Bourke
U.S. Army
John Bourke rescued badly wounded Trumpeter Snow...
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Young Two Moon
Cheyenne war chief
"Young Two Moon thought this was his last day..." but White Shield saved his life...
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John Finerty
U.S. Army
Crazy Horse commanded his forces by mirror flash from high ground...
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John Bourke
U.S. Army
Crazy Horse and Crook played a game of chase and retreat...
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Wooden Leg
Cheyenne warrior
Wooden Leg recalled: "Sometimes we chased them, sometimes they chased us."
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Henry Lemly
U.S. Army
"The Sioux ponies always outdistanced our grain-fed American horses..."
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Anson Mills
U.S. Army
Crook divided his command, sending Mills to capture a non-existent Indian village...
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John Bourke
U.S. Army
Crazy Horse nearly captured several American officers, including two on Crook's staff...
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John Bourke
U.S. Army
Crazy Horse's warriors shot Crook's horse out from under him......
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John Bourke
U.S. Army
Crook ordered his men to fall back, but before the order could be carried out......
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John Bourke
U.S. Army
Crazy Horse attacked Crook's flank and rear, hitting troops commanded by Royall...
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Anson Mills
U.S. Army
Crazy Horse cut Crook's over-extended flank to pieces...
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William Bordeaux
Sioux chronicler
"The attack was not staged in one mass but relayed in formations, a style of fighting initiated by Crazy Horse and sometimes successful in encircling troops."
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Anson Mills
U.S. Army
Crazy Horse's mauling of Royall forced Crook to recall Mills and the men he had sent to find the Indians' village...
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Henry Lemly
U.S. Army
As Crook consolidated his forces, Crazy Horse withdrew his forces into the Canyon of the Rosebud...
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Frank Grouard
U.S. Army Scout
Grouard warned Crook that Crazy Horse would kill every single American if they tried to follow the Indians into the Canyon of the Rosebud...
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Henry Lemly
U.S. Army
When Crook's Indian scouts flatly refused to follow the Sioux and Cheyenne into the Canyon of the Rosebud, the battle effectively ended...
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Henry Lemly
U.S. Army
"Crook's enemies say he was 'outgeneralled' by Crazy Horse..."
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Anson Mills
U.S. Army
"We had been most humiliatingly defeated..."
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Short Bull
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse showed "good judgement" at the Rosebud
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Black Elk
Sioux holy man
Crazy Horse "whipped them" at the Rosebud...
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Spotted Calf
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse declined to join the celebration on the night of June 17, 1876 after his great victory at the Battle of the Rosebud because he said he expected another battle with the Americans soon...
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Crazy Horse in Action...
Sioux and Cheyenne...
Eyewitness accounts of Crazy Horse in action
against the Crow, Shoshoni, Arapaho and Ute Indians...
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Short Bull
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse's bravery against the Shoshoni
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Black Elk
Sioux holy man
Crazy Horse saved the life of his brother, Little Hawk...
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Crazy Horse
Sioux war chief
Crazy Horse's own account of saving Little Hawk's life...
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Eagle Elk
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse gave his younger brother, Little Hawk, his first coup in a battle against the Utes...
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He Dog
Sioux war chief
Crazy Horse at the battle the Sioux called "The Time They Chased The Crow Back To Camp"
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He Dog
Sioux war chief
Crazy Horse and the battle called "The Time Hump Was Killed By The Crow"
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Red Feather
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse and the battle called "The Time Hump Was Killed By The Crow"
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Short Bull
Sioux warrior
Crazy Horse and the battle called "The Time Yellow Shirt Was Killed By The Crow"
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He Dog
Sioux war chief
Crazy Horse's bravery against the Arapaho
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He Dog
Sioux war chief
Crazy Horse and He Dog 's glory against the Crow
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