The Mystery Of Crazy Horse’s Final Resting Place — And The Search For The Lost Burial Site
He was given 81.
The success at the Fetterman Fight, combined with other actions in the Red Cloud War that forced the Army to abandon the Bozeman Trail forts in 1868, established Crazy Horse’s reputation within the Lakota community as one of the most effective war leaders of his generation.
Red Cloud And The Political Dimensions Of Resistance
The relationship between Crazy Horse and Red Cloud is an important dimension of the history that is sometimes obscured by treating Crazy Horse as the lone hero of Lakota resistance.
Red Cloud — Maȟpíya Lúta — was the Oglala leader who had negotiated the withdrawal of the Army from the Bozeman Trail forts and who was the primary political negotiator for the Oglala Lakota in the treaty era.
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