Crazy Horse is fatally wounded four months after surrendering to U.S. troops under General George Crook at Camp Robinson in northwestern Nebraska. He was wounded by a military guard in a scuffle with soldiers who were trying to imprison him in a cell. He died shortly thereafter.
Construction on a Crazy Horse Memorial Monument carving was started in 1948 into the Harney Peak leucogranite on Thunder Mountain. The project is being constructed on private land and funded without Federal or local Government money. More.
Credit: Crazy Horse Memorial Org.
