The Bear Paw Horses

When Crazy Horse, strange man of the Oglala Bad Face Sioux, lay dying - bayoneted in the back by white men - he placed a final Indian trust with the aged medicine priest, Crowfoot: 'Go and take back our Oglala horses from that white man who stole them from us...take the horses to meet our red brother Joseph and his Nez Perces as we promised them, to aid them in their hard fighting toward freedom in the Land of the Grandmother.' Crowfoot, then over seventy years of age, and his sixteen-year-old granddaughter Twilight, and an ancient pack mule named Red Weasel set out on an incredible journey...