The burial mystery is one thread in a much larger fabric.

The Scholars Who Got It Right

In the long history of writing about Crazy Horse, a few scholars have approached the burial mystery with the combination of scholarly rigor and cultural sensitivity that the subject demands.

Kingsley Bray’s biography, published in 2006 after years of research in both documentary sources and oral tradition, is the most thorough scholarly treatment of Crazy Horse’s life available.

Bray’s careful parsing of what is known from what is not known, and his honesty about the limits of the available evidence, sets a standard for how the burial mystery should be treated.