Wild West History: Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull (Biography)

Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux war chief (potanka) and is considered the greatest American Indian cavalry tactician who ever lived.
For most of his adult life, Crazy Horse was in constant warfare with the US Army, He served under Red Cloud from 1865 until the latter signed a peace treaty with the whites in 1868. After this time and until 1876, Crazy Horse was a war leader under the political leadership of Sitting Bull.
Sitting Bull was born in 1831 near Grand River, Dakota Territory in what is today South Dakota. He was the son of Returns-Again, a renowned Sioux warrior who named his son “Jumping Badger” at birth. The young boy killed his first buffalo at age 10 and by 14, joined his father and uncle on a raid of a Crow camp. After the raid, his father renamed him Tatanka Yotanka, or Sitting Bull, for his bravery.
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McLoughlin, Denis. Wild and Woolly: an Encyclopedia of the Old West. Barnes & Noble Books, 1996.