"Chief Crazy Horse"

In “Chief Crazy Horse” (30 April 1954) Matt Clark's opening narration says he came to the Sioux agency to search for Crazy Horse in March, 1877. His closing narration says that Crazy Horse died on September 5, 1877 (which is the historic date).

That episode was filmed at about the same time that the movie Chief Crazy Horse (1955) was filmed. The versions of Crazy Horse's death in those two productions are, of course, different from each other and from real history, but each does depict a few true facts.

At one point Matt Clark says that Crazy Horse wiped out a third of Crook's army on the Rosebud.

Obviously Matt Clark didn't get that information from history books but from listening to wild rumors.

Or maybe Matt Clark watched movies like They Died with Their Boots On (1841) where scout California Joe reports on the morning before the Little Bighorn.

What's the report?
- Any news of Crook's column?
- Plenty of them, all scalped.
- Dead long?
- Oh, about a week, I reckon.
Crazy Horse attacked Crook's outfit
coming down a stream, massacred them.
And then Crook, he hightailed it back
to where he come from, Crook did.
He got away?
Where's Crazy Horse now?
Camped on the other side
of Little Bighorn.
Headed to massacre Terry's outfit.
Then he's between us.
And I can't reach Terry in time.

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And maybe Matt Clark read the script for Chief Crazy Horse (1955) where Crazy Horse badly defeats Crook's army at the Rosebud and kills many soldiers. But in real history the Sioux & Cheyenne killed less than one percent of Crook's soldiers at the Battle of the Rosebud, not 33 percent. Which goes to show the danger of relying on movies and television for information.