Show O 0 0 Cb D D w a as ww t-ww t 1 a f fa fy a y It z it b t ts s 2 s i I rt 4 r t kM i t g n 9 t t nt nta a g a r Jh t MCc III y CUdd y i ir r f x A ii Chief Crazy zy Horse Lim v Y ellow oo 9 and We asel Bear I IBy By ELMO SCOTT WATSON lIL fILA American Indian day which is i 1 observed ed annually on the fourth I rl ri ri 1 day In September is this till a k y year car It will find a recently dedi sated memorial to one of the out outstanding I standing Individuals of the red race Out at tort Fort Robinson eb Aeb there then has been erected a monument cut from the granite of the Black Hill hills y or ot south on which are en engraved graved gra the symbols of a pipe of oNU peace and a broken brohen bow boss arrow and an P tomahawk k On It also is a n bronze bronz tablet taLet which shish tells tens the passerby passer by that near thIs thi spot on September 5 1877 Crazy Horse of ot the Sioux was killed killed dying dying as he had lined a fighting man Chief Crazy Horse was only thirty three years fears old when Shen hen his warrior career ended but he had already written his hi name high lu to the annals of the Old Oldest 11 est est est AI though he be was the tIle principal leader In the two t gret victories ewer ever e er won by hIs bis people 0 oser oserthe er the Ole white bite men It was as the Irony of file that In Ii each ach case credit for the achievement ement should be bi l en to another Sioux chief whose name and fame happened to be more familiar to the white men than was Crazy Horse Horses s One of them was wa as Red Iced Cloud whom most historians record as be belag beIns lug lag the leader In the so called ned Fetterman Mas nacre near tort Fort Phil Kearney W o 0 In III 1560 despite the testimony of ot Indian survivors ors that he wa was neither In command that day nor did dIll he base C any h hind ind md In planning or carrying out the ambush of I letterman etterman s ill fated command The Theother other was Sitting Bull who ho Is popularly a and nil erroneously belled believed to have lla been mainly re for the maneuvers ers of the Indians whIch resulted in the disaster to Custer s command on the I f ittle Big Horn In n Montana ten veers veirs liter Crazy Horse was ras born In 1844 the son of Ill in Oglala Sioux chief of the same name Ills mother dIed when hen he was two years ears old but his step stepmother stepmother stepmother mother who was also his aunt raised r him as asber asher her ber own I Trained by her and his father in the 2 rIgorous physical required of young boys 3 of the bloux Stour be early learned the lessons of tour cour courage age self denial generosity modesty truthfulness and nir lr sir dealing which so strongly 1 his later laler life lire A fine horseman and a n skillful hunter he joined his first war ar party pirty when hEn be was as only sixteen years reus old and by the time of othe the first serious war ar between the Sioux and the 1 whites hItes 1860 Crazy Horse Horses s tribesmen looked to him us ns a principal war leader and even esen the theCle e Cle Cheyenne enne chiefs allies of the Sioux practically acknowledged ledged his leadership Although Crazy Hort Horse e had distinguished hIm himself self In the llie battle and at the famous Wagon Box nox light a year icar ear later he rose to hIs g greatest heights heIght as a general In 1870 1873 and 1877 On June 17 he attacked the army of ot Gen George Ceorge Crook on the Rosebud 1 river riser lu In Montana and fought that experienced Indian fighter to toa toa ta a standstill thus breaking up the arm army armi s plan of campaign and making certain the annihilation of Ouster Cutters s command a week eek later The only army officer who defeated him fairly and square square- squarely I ly was as Gun Gen Nelson lelson A Mile Miles Milea Lear Bear Coat who ho dId that at Battle butte in the olf Volf mountaIns In Montana on January 8 1877 an engagement hleb led directly to Crazy Horse Horses s I surrender a 3 few months later By this time the hostile Sioux Stour had begun to realize that the white man was as too PO powerful erful Sp for or them Through the Influence of Chief Spited Tall Tail of the Brule Sioux an uncle of ot Crazy Horse the Oglala chieftain was persuaded to come coine In to Q tort Port Robinson Neb and surrender which be h Idid e dId on May G C 1877 1677 At the time of Crary Horses Horse s surrender hi y wife Ife was suffering from tuberculosis and the medical cure care Iven her by Dr 1 T McGIlly cudd cuddy a n surgeon with willi the Third cavalry ca not no t only won for him the friendship of the a chief but also the name nume of V the th tl e i bite Miracle Man and V loin 1 n tine the Friend of y Cra Horse The events e lead leadIng lug Ing up to Crazy Horse Horses s death dath are ore told In thIs s firsthand hand by Doctor McGill cuddy wIs ho hos o is s still living In California In September 1877 General Crook held a nn n Important council at Tort lort I ort Robinson with Ith Cm Cruz y ny Horse I was as lu in the Indian camp that day nn l the council was as a lulled hated one It finally brok brokup c e up with no results except to create CI the belle belief f ht 1 Crooks Crook's mind grind that Crazy ey Horse was as tag Ing rHon and an attempt to rejoin IR g huh who ho was us still In to Canada where here he hi had hadI ba d D L w I Pis t ai p r ri f fC i C f t Y M v hite e Bull Bullat II at atthe the Baffle at Rose Bud NOTES ON THE PICTURES Picture of Crazy Hor Horse Horae e laid said to be the only photograph ever taken of the famous chief from the collection collections of E A Brininstool PIC PICture lure ture of Limpy Yellow Dog Doc and Weasel el Bear Bearthree three Cheyenne Indian survivors of the Battle of the Rosebud Ro ebud courtesy of T J Gatchell of Buffalo Wyo Portrait of White Bulland Bull and am White Bull Bullat at the Battle of the Rosebud from Stanley Vestal Vestals s a Warpath courtesy courtey of the Houghton Mifflin Minim company found refuge under the British Hag flag after the file Custer battle In 1570 This Impression regarding the desertion of Crazy Horse was ns the result of a purposeful ms- ms mis- mis interpretation by the gO government Interpreter who wh ho was as an enemy and feared Crazy Horse dorse Of thIs I was ns Informed by Louis Louts Bordeaux a reliable man who died died cheel l e cd ed the Interpreting The feeling was as added to by Red Iced Cloud Clouds s Jealousy of ot Crazy horses Horse s Increasing power and importance Three days later Inter a courier arrived ed from Gen Ger General eral oral Crook who had gone one to tort Fort LaramIe Wyo Nyo with Ith orders to General Genera Bradley radley commandant atI at I 1 ort Robinson to arrest Crazy Horse The nc oe neet t morning a n force torce of ot three troops of ot cavalry and anda a n field piece and myself as medical officer left the post an hour before daylight lIght for a march marc of five fi miles to the camp to make the tho arrest ll e a arrived at daylight and found but a de deserted deserted sorted ground bround Crazy Horse and his peo- peo people pc pie lodges lodes and everything e had scattered and gone That evening e a courier arrived from Major Majo Burke commanding at the Spotted Tall agency agency 40 miles cast east sa saying saving that Crazy Horse had ar ai rived rh ed alone and was as In Spotted Tails scamp camp An order was sent ent to Major Burke to arrest Crazy y Horse and return him to tort Port Robinson Informed Chief Spotted Tall of ot his orders cider Spotted Till s reply was Crazy Horse ll is a chief lIe He Is my guest lIe He cannot be Ioe arrested but If the soldier chief will III S set t the time we will council with him At At 9 0 00 a m next da day Spotted Tall and an Crazy Horse appeared at Burke s office Crary Horsens Horse was ns not Informed that he was a prisoner hut but that General Bradley at Fort Port Robinson wanted anted him there for a council Ills His reply was as asIt It Is well ell I 1 will go I the waltIn waiting ambi ambulance lance and surrounded by Indian scouts and a aca ca cavalry alry escort c es cort he started for I ort Robinson At 5 00 p m they arrived at the adjutants s office In the meantime mum time Bradley had Issued orders or ders to Captain Kennington officer of the da day that Immediately upon his arrival Crazy Horse Hors g was as to be confined In the guard house Antic the arrival I was standing In front of the adjutants b office and shook hinds with Ith Cra Crary Horse on his tits arrival a He entered and said he hewa wa wag there for council But ut Instead of meetIng Bradley heas he was as taken charge of by I and was ns led to the line guard house w they en entend tend quietly 11 v hen Crazy Horse observed the steel bars between bet een the mard room and the cells celis be he have Jave an nn outcry This Thin Is s a prison 1 I and seizing a knife In each hand from rom his bs belt fou fought ht hIs h hway way ay to the parade ground where I was WB standing Kennington was scan ns hanging on ou one wrist and Little Big Man bins an Indian scout on the other Then the chief suddenly fell tell to the ground writhing and groaning I worked my wy way In bet between beteD eD the guard and examined him film Ho lIe Jo was as frothIng at atthe atthe the mouth pulse e Yr weak eak and Intermittent blood blo trickling from the upper edge of ot his hip A Sato ato of ot the Math Infantry had transfixed hi him film n y 1 s with Ith his Ills bayonet ba onet and his Lis case was as hopeless I then lien worked my way say ay to American horse the friendly chief who ho was WIS sitting on his horse and Informed him that Crazy Horse was badly hurt and that we would place him in the guard guardhouse guardhouse guan house and I would care for him Ills answer was as Ao 1 0 o Walan be lie Is a chief and cannot can cannot ca not be Le put In prison The officers were at their thel quarters orderlies hind had vanished and no one t to carry orders So I tried to arrange matters and am l Kennington to hold the ground while I crossed the parade ground to the general s guar quarters tern to explain matters That resulted as fo fol follos tows lows Please g e give my compliments to the officer of the day lIe He Is to carry out his original orders or ers l and put the Indian in the guard house I returned to Lennington and we proceeded to put the Indian In the lie guard house As we w e started to lift him a tall Sioux grasped my hand hamand and In the sign language age said that they did not want to see me hurt and for me roe to desist The s IndIans had begun cocking their rifles rInes So another another an I other trip to the general to explain matters and andI amI I remarked to him General I know the temper tempo r and feelings of these Indians You may be able to Imprison Crary Horse e but It will mean the 3 death of a good many soldiers and Indians It If you will pardon me for suggesting It we may mayhe mayhe ma he able to compromise on the adjutant s office offic where here I can care for him for he lie will die before Lefore morning After much reluctance he acquiesced and I returned to the scene On being Informed of o I what I 1 had done American Horse dismounted and spread hIs blanket on the The In placed the chief on It and carried him Into Int the adjutant adjutants s office By Dy administration of ot hypo hypo- hypodermIcs of morphia etc 7 I cased eased his sufferings suffering I remained with him until his death at 11 00 C p in and there were present then Kennington officer 0 of th the day Lemley officer of the guard old man Crazy Horse and Chief Touch the th Cloud Yutan six foot four In la heIght heigh When Crazy Horse died this chief drew the blai binn ket et over oser 0 er the face of ot the dead man and standing up pointed to the body and said Bald There lies lie his lodge then pointing up The chief has haa gone cor above abon I I then returned to my quarters across the th parade ground accompanied by louch Touch the Cloud who I slept on his blanket outside my door through the night as there was still danger of ot trouble After I retired word of the death of the lie chIef got out and all an we could heir r were the walls ails and death songs from nIl all quarters as we were ero surrounded for miles by the Indian camps The whole garrison of 1610 1 GOO COO men was as kept on for the night but tut matters finally adjusted them then seh selves es Ilex 1 diy day the lie body was removed remo to the Spotted Tall Tail agency and on the usual II platform I 1 later ater In the fn fall when we e moved mo the Indians miles mile to the Missouri 1 river It us us In the fall of 1878 w when hen the Indians were ere mo mowed moved cd back to the present Pine Ridge Rid agency the body was as brought t back bach and con coi there lo Io thIs tills diy day d IY the last resting place of ot the chief clil remains a secret the lie Sioux and since It has never been marked it Is ther her fitting that lint there should be bo some memorial to him such ns as the tho monument recently dedicated nt lit rort Robinson In the land he 10 lowed loved e 1 and for which he fou fought ht so V Por as ns Bourke writing of I the chiefs first sepulcher at the Spotted Tall Ta a auncy-a agency a simple one of or plain pine has slabs slabs I said Just as the lie grave grare of Custer marked the tl high water ater mark of Sioux macy In the trans trans- trans Missouri region eo so docs does the grace crave of Crary Cra Horse mark the ebb ellb from frow which no tide has 13 I ever er risen 0 O by Tr t m M r r Union f |