Crazy Horse

noun

Tashunca-Uitco, c1849–77, leader of the Oglala Sioux tribe: defeated General George Custer at battle of Little Bighorn.

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse?18491877MSiouxPOLITICS: chief Indian name Ta-Sunko-Witko . ?1849–77, Sioux Indian chief, remembered for his attempts to resist White settlement in Sioux territory

Crazy Horse

A Sioux chief of the nineteenth century. Crazy Horse was one of the leaders of the Native American forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. ( See Custer's last stand .)

Crazy horse cars jangled down the main Main Street to the docks.

Our contracting freight agent on the Coast at that time was a fellow so erratic that he was nicknamed "Crazy-horse."

Right in the midst of the strike Crazy-horse wired that he had secured a big silk shipment for New York.

The brilliant young war leader, Crazy Horse, was appointed to lead the charge.

Crazy Horse loved horses, and his father gave him a pony of his own when he was very young.

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