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 CRAZY HORSE
Crazy Horse was born along Rapid Creek near present-day Rapid City, South Dakota, to the east of Paha Sapa, the Black Hills.
Crazy Horse became further known to many of the Sioux bands for his courage in the War for the BOZEMAN Trail of 1866-68 under the Oglala RED CLOUD, when the army began building a road in Powder River country from the Oregon Trail to the goldfields of Montana.
Crazy Horse remained at the Red Cloud Agency, and his presence caused unrest among the Indians and suspicion among the whites.
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 Crazy horse
Crazy Horse became popular because the courage he held in the war for the Bozeman Trail, in 1866 through 1868, when the army had started building a road from the Oregon Trail to the Gold fields in Montana.
Crazy Horse then took his band and engaged in the beginning of the war for the Black Hills in 1876 through 1877, which was known as the battle for the Powder River.
Crazy Horse did not die from the Bayonet itself, he died from the infection of the bayonet wound.
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 CMT.com : Crazy Horse : Biography
As Crazy Horse's career appeared to hit a skid, Young's career continued to flourish as he issued the biggest hit of his career, the mellow country-rock classic Harvest, the same year.
The band toured Europe later in the year (with Lofgren back on board) and recorded these new compositions, which wouldn't see the light of day until 1975, when the classic album Tonight's the Night was finally issued.
Amid the flurry of recording, Crazy Horse managed to issue a fourth album on their own, 1978's Crazy Moon, which featured Young guesting on a few of the tracks and was easily their finest and most-focused effort since their debut release seven years earlier.
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 Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was found to be a determined little fellow, and it was settled one day among the larger boys that they would "stump" him to ride a good-sized bull calf.
Young Crazy Horse was twenty-one years old when all the Teton Sioux chiefs (the western or plains dwellers) met in council to determine upon their future policy toward the invader.
Crazy Horse took no part in the discussion, but he and all the young warriors were in accord with the decision of the council.
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 Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse Memorial, the world's largest sculpture, still in progress, is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota on US Highway 16/385 just 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore.
Crazy Horse was born around 1842, along Rapid Creek near present-day Rapid City, South Dakota, to the east of Paha Sapa, the Black Hills.
Crazy Horse received a promise from Crook through Red Cloud that if he surrendered, his people would have a reservation of their own in the Powder River country.
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 PBS - THE WEST - Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse fought in the 1865-68 war led by the Oglala chief Red Cloud against American settlers in Wyoming, and played a key role in destroying William J. Fetterman's brigade at Fort Phil Kearny in 1867.
After this victory, Crazy Horse joined forces with Sitting Bull and on June 25 led his band in the counterattack that destroyed Custer's Seventh Cavalry, flanking the Americans from the north and west as Hunkpapa warriors led by chief Gall charged from the south and east.
Crazy Horse did not resist arrest at first, but when he realized that he was being led to a guardhouse, he began to struggle, and while his arms were held by one of the arresting officers, a soldier ran him through with a bayonet.
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 Crazy Horse.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
CRAZY Horse, the greatest military genius of the Sioux Confederation, was born in 1849, Crazy Horse first came to the notice of writers about 1875, but the name was an old one, and was handed down from generation to generation.
Crazy Horse played an important part in the affairs of -the Sioux, and was fearless in battle.
Indian police suspected that Crazy Horse might be plaguing an outbreak, and on September 5,1877, a group of fortythree policemen were sent to arrest him.
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 Crazy Horse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Crazy Horse - Tashunke Witko - was born around 1842 and he consider him self as a Ogla Sioux even though his mother was a Brule´, sister to the well known chief Spotted Tail.
crazy Horse were admired by his people, and he was also know for puting the future of his peolpe ahead and to keep the casualties down.
The wound was mortal, and on that same night Crazy Horse died.
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 The Wild West - Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was born in the fall of 1841.
Crazy Horse was a member of a medicine society called the Thunder Cult, and he sought visions to guide his people.
Crazy Horse (Tashunca Utico/Tashunka Witka) was a chief that was associated with both Gall and Sitting Bull.
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 Crazy Horse Photo
Crazy Horse was bayoneted in his kidney by a guard at the fort on Sept. 5, 1877.
Crazy Horse's trusted friend Baptiste "Little Bat" Garnier convinced him to sit for a portrait, assuring him the image would be kept secret until after his death.
Crazy Horse, says Old John, turned to the wall as the picture was being taken and the resulting photo or tintype was worthless," Feraca wrote.
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 Crazy Horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Encouraging Bear, spiritual adviser to Crazy Horse, reported that Crazy Horse was born in the fall "in the year in which the band to which he belonged, the Oglalas, stole 100 horses." According to winter counts kept by Cloud Shield and White Bull, that year was 1840.
Crazy Horse had a sister whose name has been forgotten, and a half-brother, known as Little Hawk, born when his father remarried the two sisters of the Brulé Lakota chief Spotted Tail.
On December 21, 1866, Crazy Horse led the Oglala contingent of a war party comprising 1,000 warriors, including members of the Cheyenne and Miniconjou tribes in an ambush of U.S. troops stationed at Fort Phil Kearny that became known as the Fetterman massacre.
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 Crazy Horse/Tashunkewitko, Oglala
A party of young warriors, led by Crazy Horse, had dashed upon a frontier post, killed one of the sentinels, stampeded the horses, and pursued the herder to the very gate of the stockade, thus drawing upon themselves the fire of the garrison.
The attack on Fort Phil Kearny was the first fruits of the new policy, and here Crazy Horse was chosen to lead the attack on the woodchoppers, designed to draw the soldiers out of the fort, while an army of six hundred lay in wait for them.
Crazy Horse was a member of the "Strong Hearts" and the "Tokala" or Fox lodge.
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 Crazy Horse : Crazy Moon - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Crazy Horse was, in effect, three different bands on its first three albums because the only constants were bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina as lead singers, songwriters, guitarists, and keyboardists came and went.
The band name seemed to be retired by 1973, but in 1974 Talbot and Molina hooked up with singer/guitarist Frank Sampedro as Crazy Horse, leading to sessions with their erstwhile employer Neil Young that resulted in the Young/Crazy Horse album Zuma.
This is something of a Crazy Horse reunion effort, and it shows the band off at its best, or at least probably as good as it could be without co-founder Whitten, who died in 1972.
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 Crazy Horse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Crazy Horse not only taught them how to hunt and fight, but also the history of their people, which he had learned from his elders.
Crazy Horse loved his people and valued their freedom so much that he fought for many years to defend it.
Crazy Horse saw his land being taken away, the precious buffalo disappearing, and his people dying.
www.wc.pdx.edu /crazyhorse/crazy.html   (942 words)

  
 Crazy Horse - Biography - AOL Music
Out of all the backing bands Neil Young has recorded and performed with during his long and illustrious career, the best-known of the bunch (and perhaps one of the greatest garage rock bands of all time) remains Crazy Horse.
The band's roots lay in the obscure early '60s doo wop band Danny & the Memories, which contained future Crazy Horse members Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot, and Ralph Molina, among others.
Get Crazy Horse biography information, download, listen and watch Crazy Horse music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and use the music search function to find information on other new and established recording artists.
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 Crazy Horse (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crazy Horse is a rock band best known for its long association with Canadian singer/songwriter Neil Young, despite having released five albums of its own over a 19-year span.
The band began in 1962 as the doo wop group Danny and the Memories, with Danny being guitarist Danny Whitten, and counting future Crazy Horse stalwarts Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina as members, the latter two the only individuals present in every incarnation of the band.
The split was short-lived, as Young and Crazy Horse reunited in 1990 for the acclaimed album Ragged Glory and its subsequent tour and live album Arc-Weld in 1991.
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 Crazy Horse Memorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bob Lee and Crazy Horse Memorial CEO Ruth Ziolkowski examine the pipe of Dewey Beard, a survivor of both the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Along with the pipe, Lee gave the museum at Crazy Horse a photograph taken while he was interviewing Dewey Beard at Lee's former home in Rapid City.
Crazy Horse Memorial is the world's largest sculpture located on US Highway 16/385 just 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore.
www.crazyhorse.org /news/BeardPipe/beardpipe.html   (592 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Monument   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Crazy Horse is known for his part in the Native American resistance to white expansion in the western United States.
As a young man, Crazy Horse fought against United States troops in Wyoming under the Oglala chief Red Cloud.
Korczak felt that Crazy Horse should be a nonprofit educational and cultural project, built by the interested public and not the taxpayer.
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 Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Jack Nitzsche, Neil Young's producer/arranger on the masterpiece "Broken Arrow", has stated that Crazy Horse was the American equivalent of The Rolling Stones.
Unleashed in Los Angeles in 1969, Crazy Horse represented the essence of grunge before the word was ever used in a musical context.
From the Crazy Horse anthem "Prisoners of Rock and Roll," to an electrified "Pocahontas," from an epic performance of the guitar masterpiece "Danger Bird," to explorations of new sonic frontiers during "Scattered" and "When You r Lonely Heart Breaks," the specialness of the music on Year of the Horse can not be denied.
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 Neil Young and Crazy Horse interview
While Young has jumped through various styles from hard rock to country to rhythm and blues and AC, Crazy Horse have remained focused as one of the greatest rock bands on the planet.
Crazy Horse don't play with Young on every album but a quick scan at titles like 'Ragged Glory', Rust Never Sleeps', 'Zuma' and 'Sleeps With Angels' makes for some of the greatest rock records of all time.
On the eve of the Neil Young and Crazy Horse Australian tour, he spoke with Undercover's Paul Cashmere.
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 Crazy Horse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Crazy Horse is the English name of the great Oglala Sioux war chief, Tasunka Witho, born in l842.
Crazy Horse and his band resisted capture during the winter of l876-77.
While being led to a guard house cell, Crazy Horse attempted to escape, was mortally wounded, and died on September 7, l877.
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 Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was born near Rapid Creek, Dakota Territory in 1842.
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were among the few who never signed any kind of a treaty to give up their land.
One of the few fights in which the Sioux under Red Cloud and Crazy Horse were defeated was a fight in 1867 near Fort Kearney, in which the white men had superior weapons and a good defense.
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 "the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Honoring Crazy Horse and His Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Descendants of the Warriors of the Crazy Horse Band are now starting to plan again for next year's ride to honor Crazy Horse and the Warriors of his Band, and to have September 6th, the anniversary of his death, proclaimed a National Holiday.
The descendants of the warriors of the Crazy Horse band have now ridden two years straight from Chadron, NE to Fort Robinson and have held ceremonies at Fort Robinson, NE on September 6.
Sponsored by the Descendants of the Warriors of the Crazy Horse Band.
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 Crazy Horse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
But everyone knows the name "Crazy Horse," even if they have never heard of Neil Young.
No photograph was ever taken of Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse: the Strange Man of the Oglalas.
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 encylopedia Crazy Horse - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Crazy Horse (1849?-1877), chief of the Oglala Sioux, known for his part in the Native American resistance to white expansion in the western United...
In 1969 Young signed a contract with Reprise Records and released his first solo album, Neil Young.
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, also known as Custer's Last Stand, American military engagement fought on June 25, 1876, in what is now Montana,...
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 SEPTEMBER 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In addition to our efforts to proclaim September 6th a National Holiday, an annual ride to honor Crazy Horse and the Warriors of his band will begin on September 2nd in Porcupine, SD.
Crazy Horse and his warriors never signed any treaties.
The descendants of the warriors of the Crazy Horse band began this ride in 1999 from Chadron, NE to Fort Robinson and have held ceremonies at Fort Robinson, NE on September 6.
www.theramp.net /kohr4/Crazy_Horse_Memorial_Ride_2004.htm   (213 words)

  
 Bonnaroo 2003 Artist Bios: Neil Young & Crazy Horse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Drawing influence from Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Ventures, and the Shadows, the band evolved from an instrumental group to a folk-rock band, and began performing in clubs around the area between 1963 and 1965.
Following the demise of the band, Young signed a solo deal with Reprise Records, and released a poorly received eponymous debut, Neil Young in January of 1969.
A subsequent summer tour, which spawned a double live album titled Year of the Horse, was filmed by Jarmusch for a 1997 documentary of the same name.
www.bonnaroo.com /2003/artists03/bio03_neilyoung.htm   (1289 words)

  
 MP3 Downloads - Music Downloads - Music Videos
The 1997 Australian re-release of the Crazy Horse album Crazy Moon is quite a find for fans of the band, as well as for admirers of Neil Young.
Although the songwriting and the singing is 100 percent Crazy Horse (guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro, bassist Billy Talbot, and drummer Ralph Molina), Young backs up the band that usually backs him, and brings some truly great and ragged guitar work to the proceedings.
Although two are from the lukewarm 1972 release At Crooked Lake, five great tracks from the pre-Crazy Horse band the Rockets are here, featuring the late, original Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten (the subject of Young's classic "The Needle and the Damage Done").
www.mp3.com /albums/3902/summary.html   (682 words)

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