Chapter One
Crazy Horse, a Sioux warrior dead more than one
hundred and twenty years, buried no one knows where,
is rising again over Pa Sapa, the Black Hills of South
Dakota, holy to the Sioux. Today, as in life, his horse is
with him. Fifty years of effort on the part of the sculptor
Korczak Ziolkowski and his wife and children have just
begun to nudge the man and his horse out of what was
once Thunderhead Mountain. In the half-century that the
Ziolkowski family has worked, millions of tons of rock
have been moved, as they attempt to create what will be
the world's largest sculpture; but the man that is emerging
from stone and dirt is as yet only a suggestion, a
shape, which those who journey to Custer, South Dakota,
to see must complete in their own imaginations.
It is a nice irony that the little town Crazy Horse has
come to brood over is named for his old adversary
George Armstrong Custer--Long Hair, whose hair, however,
had been cut short on the day of his last battle, so
that it is not certain that the Sioux or Cheyenne who
killed him really recognized him until after he was dead.
Crazy Horse had one good look at Custer, in a skirmish
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