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  Crazy Horse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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.
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.
Crazy Horse took no part in the discussion, but he and all the young warriors were in accord with the decision of the council.
littlebighorn.8k.com /biographies/biocrazyhorse.htm   (3820 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crazy Horse is a not a federal or state funded project; 100 percent of its funds come from private donations, contributions and admission fees.
As a non-profit organization, Crazy Horse Memorial is responsible for all maintenance and landscaping needs, the purchasing and maintaining of all its equipment, as well as the continued growth and development of the mountain and the museum.
Most people will not see this memorial finished in their lifetime, but for the dreamers at Crazy Horse, the most important thing is that they were part of creating a history that will be enjoyed by generations to come.
www.bobcat.com /news/arc/crazyhorse_article.txt   (960 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument in progress in the Black Hills of South Dakota that when complete will be the world's largest sculpture.
Crazy Horse resisted being photographed, and was deliberately buried where nobody would find his grave.
The memorial is to be the icon of a huge educational and cultural center that will include the University and Medical Training Center for the North American Indian and the Indian Museum of North America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial   (600 words)

  
 ~*~Crazy Horse ~ SD~*~   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crazy Horse Memorial is a nonprofit cultural and educational humanitarian project dedicated to the Native Americans of North America.
Crazy Horse defended his people and their way of life in the only manner he knew.
Crazy Horse, as far as the scale model is concerned, is to be carved not so much as a lineal likeness but more as a memorial to the spirit of Crazy Horse — to his people.
499angels.net /ulasiewicz/CrazyHorse.html   (671 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Monument
Initially, a 100ft high memorial honouring Crazy Horse, the charismatic Sioux war chief prominent in the famous annihilation of Custer’s cavalry in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, was the aim of this Boston-born action man of Polish descent.
Crazy Horse was controversially killed at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, while under a flag of truce, exactly 31 years before Korczak was born on September 6, 1908 – and the Indians felt he was destined to turn their memorial dream into reality.
The memorial, meant to represent all native Americans, depicts when Crazy Horse was cynically asked where his lands were and he replied: "My lands are where my dead lie buried".
website.lineone.net /~bunwin/crazy_horse.htm   (1314 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Memorial - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL [Crazy Horse Memorial] memorial to the Oglala Souix chief Crazy Horse and Native Americans, under construction at Thunderhead Mt., near Custer, S.Dak., in the Black Hills.
When finished it will consist of an equestrian statue of Crazy Horse, 563 ft (172 m) high and 641 ft (196 m) long, carved in the round out of the mountainside; it will be the largest statue in the world.
Work on the memorial was begun in 1948 by American sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski (1908-82) at the invitation of Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear; it is expected to be finished in the mid-21st cent.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-crzyh1rsm1em.html   (260 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Memorial
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 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.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/crazyhorse   (1595 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Work Underway on Horse's head, world's largest sculpture, ...
The nine-story-high face of Crazy Horse was completed in 1998, the nonprofit Memorial's 50th anniversary.
The Memorial is a nonprofit educational and cultural undertaking; its major goals include the mountain carving, the Indian Museum of North America and the planned Indian University of North America and Medical Training Center.
The Memorial is observing 2002 as a Year of Rededication in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the sculptor's death on October 20, 1982.
www.roadandtravel.com /newsworthy/Newsworthy2002/crazyhorse.htm   (567 words)

  
 SR.com: Crazy Horse memorial progress slow but steady
The Crazy Horse Memorial rests about a mile away from the scale model in a museum associated with the memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
When I first visited the Crazy Horse Memorial in the summer of 1982, more than 7 million tons of rock had been removed from the mountain — 18 times more than all of Mount Rushmore —; but there was little to see.
What will become the head of the horse was outlined with 176 gallons of white paint on the mountain's flank, and in the valley below was a small visitor center and the modest home of the sculptor and his family.
www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=13154   (1114 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Monument
Crazy Horse Memorial is a work still in progress and when finished will be the world's largest sculpture.
The memorial is home to not only the statue itself, but the Indian Museum of North America, the Native American Cultural Center, the sculptor's studio, and a large Orientation Center where many Native American arts and crafts are on display by the artists themselves.
Visit Crazy Horse Memorial any time of year and enjoy not only a magical view of the monument's progress but also an educational and cultural tour of the museum and on-sight facilities.
www.allblackhills.com /crazy_horse/crazy_horse.php   (484 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Memorial « Google Sightseeing
A few miles from Mount Rushmore is the Crazy Horse Memorial which Korczak Ziolkowski started carving singlehandedly in 1948 and it’s not expected to be finished any time soon.
Although the satellite photo is not the best shot you can almost make out Crazy Horse’s 87 foot head in the piece of rock just south of the red-roofed building (it may help to compare to this photo) and his arm extending to the south-east.
Crazy Horse, though admirable as it may be, is not much more that a rock formation.
www.googlesightseeing.com /2005/05/10/crazy-horse-memorial   (993 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse Memorial as seen from US Highway 385 in Custer County.
The Crazy Horse Memorial is the Black Hills', second colossal mountain carving.
Crazy Horse Memorial, Avenue of the Chiefs, Crazy Horse, SD, 57730-9506.
www.rosyinn.com /5100a31.htm   (205 words)

  
 Crazy Horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crazy_Horse_(person)   (2476 words)

  
 St. Paul Pioneer Press | 07/23/2006 | Crazy Horse Memorial fund drive planned
Ziolkowski, whose dream it was to honor American Indians by carving the 563-foot-high likeness of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse into a granite mountain in the southern Black Hills, set off the first blast in 1948.
Visitor numbers have grown to more than 1 million annually, the face of Crazy Horse is complete and the complex of buildings at the carving's base now includes a museum, education center and restaurant.
Crazy Horse Memorial plans to announce the fund drive Oct. 7, said Fred Tully, development director.
www.twincities.com /mld/pioneerpress/news/local/15098464.htm   (529 words)

  
 Crazy House: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
The book attempts to describe and chart the lives of Crazy Horse and his Sioux people during the mid to late nieteenth century, during which they were enduring the immense pressures of the United States' Indian Wars, as well as settlers pressure on the Sioux land.
The Crazy Horse Memorial Project is not a federal or state program, and is mostly financed by an admission fee to the monument.
The biography of Crazy Horse was one of the first books to come close to a sympathetic view towards Native Americans, and it came out half a century after the last of the big Indian Wars.
www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/crazyhorse.html   (1188 words)

  
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A history of Chief Crazy Horse as told by He Dog and written down by his son, Rev. Joseph Eagle Hawk, Oglala, SD is recorded on pages 49-69 of "The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse." This book is a compilation of historical documents with an introduction by Robert A. Clark and commentary by Carroll Friswold.
Crazy Horse was moved into the adjutant's office and placed on a bed there.
Crazy Horse moved from struggle both with the white soldiers and strife within the leadership of the Sioux to legend and gave his spirit to a movement that remains strong even today.
smithdray.tripod.com /ch/crazyhorse.htm   (2694 words)

  
 Travel YMT blog: Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse had the soul of a warrior even as a child—he killed a buffalo and earned his own horse before he was 12.
Even after the Lakota victory at Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse fought against the military for another two years, and was the last warrior to surrender except for Hunkpapa Lakota Chief Sitting Bull and his primary military captain, Chief Gall.
Crazy Horse never let himself be photographed, and no drawings exist, so no one really knows what he looked like.
www.ymtvacations.com /weblog/2006/10/crazy_horse_memorial.html   (711 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Monument and Ziolowski
Chief Crazy Horse was leader of the Lakota poeple in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Crazy Horse led the attack on General Custer's 7th Cavalry in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
The Crazy Horse Memorial is not a state or federally funded project.
www.angelfire.com /sd/crazyhorse   (1020 words)

  
 CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crazy Horse Mountain also contains a beautiful visitor center, where you can view a short presentation on the mountain and Korczak's life.
Korczak built a 1/34the model of the mountain which is on display at Crazy Horse Memorial.
This is a picture of some of the things that are inside the Crazy Horse Memorial vister center.
www.geocities.com /south_dakota01/crazyhorse.html   (260 words)

  
 Reznet : News: : Crazy Horse, Day 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
CRAZY HORSE, S.D.—When I woke up this morning at my house in Fort Washakie, Wyo., I was greeted with a blanket of snow on the ground and a grey sky.
Ron His Horse is Thunder, president of Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, N.D., will be the keynote speaker on the morning of April 20.
The conference is funded by the Freedom Forum and co-sponsored by the South Dakota Newspaper Association, the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation and the journalism programs at South Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota.
www.reznetnews.org /news/050419_crazyhorse   (486 words)

  
 Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota - American West Travelogue
When completed, the statue will depict Crazy Horse on his mount, arm pointed forward, and will be by far the largest statue in the world, 641 feet long and 563 feet high.
Crazy Horse, along with Chief Sitting Bull, had led the Sioux warriors against Custer at the Little Big Horn.
He commenced the Crazy Horse project in 1948, and worked on it until his death in 1982, enduring much physical hardship along the way.
www.amwest-travel.com /awt_mtrushmore.html   (1087 words)

  
 Bobcat Company/New Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crazy Horse Memorial has been a 100 percent privately-funded, non-profit operation for more than 50 years.
The Crazy Horse Memorial attracts approximately one million visitors per year.
The nine-story high face of Crazy Horse was completed in 1998.
www.bobcat.com /news/arc/images/news_arc_crazyhorse.html   (699 words)

  
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The forehead is “rough finished” by May; rock removal continues in front of the eyes and nose as thinning the face progresses in the cheek areas; right eye “opens” by the end of the year.
Crazy Horse “opens” both eyes by May; lower portion of the face is blocked-out by removing 17 inches of rock from in front of the mouth and chin, revealing for the first time the full height of the 87½ foot high face.
Both eyelids are created, the eyebrows and nose are further defined and the bridge of the nose is torched (polished) to the tip; most of the last rock beneath the nose removed in early August after which the first cut for the lips is completed.
www.crazyhorsemountain.us   (1312 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Memorial, near Custer, SD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crazy Horse Memorial, near Custer, SD Crazy Horse Memorial, near Custer, SD
Also, the tunnel beneath the arm was cut to allow the bulldozer the ability to access both sides of the project and to push off blast debris from the mountain.
The mountain chosen for the Crazy Horse sculpture is pink granite, and visitors are invited to carry home a piece of carving debris as a memento.
www.climber.org /Feature/HighPoints1998/chorse.html   (180 words)

  
 Sioux City Journal: Crazy Horse Memorial reaches milestone
Blocking out the 22-story high horse's head is the focus of drilling and blasting on the Crazy Horse carving in progress in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Overall, Crazy Horse will be 563 feet high, 641 feet long and be carved in-the-round, according to a news release from the Crazy Horse Memorial project.
The 19-foot high horse's head has been the priority since completion of the nine-story high face of Crazy Horse on June 3, 1998, the memorial's 50th anniversary.
www.siouxcityjournal.com /articles/2003/11/25/news/regional/7097bb00037d21af86256de9001dbeec.txt   (485 words)

  
 Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse was a war chief of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
Crazy Horse was imprisoned because he was rumored to be planning a revolt, he was killed while reportedly attempting to escape.
The Memorial includes the Indian Museum of North America, The Native American Cultural Center, which was dedicated at the 1996 Native American Day Celebration, the Sculptor's Studio, as well as a new 40,000 square foot Orientation Center and theater.
www.blackhillsvacations.com /PlacestoPlay/NationalandStateParks/CrazyHorseMemorial   (316 words)

  
 Learning Family at Crazy Horse Monument
This sculpture was chosen to adorn a memorial in the South Dakota state capitol for eight plane crash victims, including Gov. George S. Mickelson, who helped his father, then governor himself, to set off the first blast on Crazy Horse in 1948 when he was eight years old.
Crazy Horse was born on Rapid Creek in the Black Hills of South Dakota, in the year of 1842(?).
Crazy Horse is to be carved not so much as a lineal likeness, but more as a memorial to the spirit of Crazy Horse–to his people.
www.learningfamily.com /reiser/2kf/places/005crazyhorse/index.html   (955 words)

  
 felixwong.com » Crazy Horse Memorial, SD
The Lakotas and other tribes considered them sacred, and after seeing them myself, so do I. The main feature of the memorial is a granite mountain carving — the largest in the world — that was begun in 1948 by Korczak Ziolkowski at the request of the Lakotas.
The sculpture is a work in progress; so far only Crazy Horse’s head is completed.
The head of the horse he is riding has been blocked out and will be sculpted next.
felixwong.com /news/2006/06/crazy-horse-memorial-sd   (384 words)

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