According to most followers of the Indian Wars, Crazy Horse, the great Oglala Sioux warrior, never allowed his picture to be taken. No one has ever produced a fully documented photo of Crazy Horse. Therefore it was much to my surprise when browsing through the book "American Indian Chiefs" by Jason Hook I encountered a pictured claimed to be Crazy Horse. The caption to the picture is as follows.Crazy Horse boasted that he would never allow the white man's camera to "steal his shadow." No fully authenticated image of him exists, although several photographs have been published purporting to be him. of these, this old tin-type is the most likely to be authentic. it originated with Ellen Howard, daughter of the scout Baptiste Garnier(Little Bat) whose wife was Crazy Horse's cousin. She claimed that Little Bat and the infamous scout Frank Grouard persuaded Crazy horse to have the photograph taken near Fort Laramie, about 1872. It bears a fascinating resemblance to written descriptions of Crazy Horse, and was authenticated as being him by Jake Herman, Fifth Member of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, after consultation with the Lakota elders.
The resolution of the photo in the book is not sufficient to determine if there is a scar on the left side of the face caused by the gunshot wound inflicted by No Water.
Is this Crazy Horse? You decide.