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Helen Winter Stauffer writes an in depth biography on the top ranked writer of Nebraska's history in fiction and nonfiction.

The horrific spectacle young Crazy Horse witnessed at the Battle of Blue Water Creek branded into his heart the need to protect his people from the white enemy.

Lt. Harney sought to punish the responsible Brule Sioux for the massacre of Lt. John Grattan's command. With 600 men he surrounded and ambushed the Sioux camp of 250.

From his youth, Crazy Horse desired Black Buffalo Woman. However, the power alliances with Chief Red Cloud prevented them from marrying upon adulthood.

After witnessing the Grattan and Harney Massacres, Curly, who later took the name of Crazy Horse, skyrocketed into the most feared warrior of the American Plains Indians.

The killing of a Mormon's escaped cow led to two massacres. First, there occurred the Grattan Massacre then the related Battle of Blue Water Creek or Harney Massacre.