Crazy Horse - A Life

Informationen zum Autor Larry McMurtry Klappentext Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for understanding the human psyche, Larry McMurtry animates the character of this remarkable figure, whose betrayal by white representatives of the U.S. government was a tragic turning point in the history of the West. A mythic figure puzzled over by generations of historians, Crazy Horse emerges from McMurtry’s sensitive portrait as the poignant hero of a long-since-vanished epoch. Zusammenfassung Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse! a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for understanding the human psyche! Larry McMurtry animates the character of this remarkable figure! whose betrayal by white representatives of the U.S. government was a tragic turning point in the history of the West. A mythic figure puzzled over by generations of historians! Crazy Horse emerges from McMurtry’s sensitive portrait as the poignant hero of a long-since-vanished epoch.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Mcmurtry, McMurtry Larry
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.12.2005
• EAN: 9780143034803
• ISBN: 978-0-14-303480-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 180 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Penguin Lives Biographies; Penguin Lives Biographies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, Biography: historical, political & military, Indigenous Peoples, Biography: historical, political and military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, Relating to Native American people / First Americans