>> well, that's true, but even mary sandar writes of the strange man. >> he was strange. >> and the other guy's wife which they got mad about, and they didn't. they were stoic about it, am i right? >> i would say you're in interesting territory. [laughter] >> did word of crazy horse's death get out to the sioux nation, and if it did, what was the reaction of the sioux nation to his death? >> his stabbing took place in the middle of a very large and unruly crowd filled with people who were shoving and pushing, and very few people actually saw with any clarity what happened. and the whites immediately began spreading the word that crazy horse had not been stabbed by the guard, although plenty of people actually saw that very explicitly, but that he had somehow stabbed himself with his own knife in the course of the struggle while he was trying to break free and to get away. as i mentioned earlier, there's about a thousand people roughly or maybe even more at the scene at that fatal moment. the indians were probably about evenly divided between supporters of crazy horse who wanted to protect