Article: Crazy Horse role.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

In the "Interview" in the August 2009 Wild West, historian John H. Monnett questions Crazy Horse's decoy role at the Fetterman Fight. Monnett says there is a lack of original Indian sources. I am currently reading the 2005 book The Journey of Crazy Horse, by Joseph M. Marshall III, who was raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. Marshall reports hearing oral history about Crazy Horse's role as the leader of the decoys.

Ed Colbach

West Linn, Ore.

John Monnett responds: I am quite certain that people living and growing up on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations from the 1940s to the present have heard stories of Crazy Horse's role as leader ...

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