Through it all, new heroes emerge while others fade quietly into history. One figure who has consistently stayed famous is the Oglala War Leader Crazy Horse  

Sources differ on the precise year of Crazy Horse's birth, but most agree he was born between 1840 and 1845.

Mari Sandoz, who first brought the Lakota chief to the public eye, wrote that no photographs exist of Crazy Horse, yet the Custer Battlefield Museum in Garryowen, Montana, exhibits the above tintype of him, citing family provenance and a battle scar on the left cheek as proof that the image is valid. Who knows, this face may have been among the last Custer ever glimpsed