The Indians moved in a circle round their campfire. "Crazy Horse! Crazy Horse!" they chanted. It was the name of their brave young warrior who had just returned from his first battle. He had show his people that he had courage.

Crazy Horse had liked the white men he met as a boy in Nebraska. But as he grew up he saw the whites swarm over the land, demanding it for themselves. They scared away buffalo on which the Indians depended for food and clothing.

Then Crazy Horse became the war chief of the Oglala tribe of Sioux Indians. He taught them to fight together and to defend their land. The white men wanted the Indians to live on reservations. "A reservation is like a jail without bars," Crazy Horse told his people.

Crazy Horse was a bold and brilliant leader. His story is one of courage and the proud freedom of the plains.

From the dust jacket