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Curly’s best friends’ were Little Mouse, a bossy, shiny eyed girl a few years younger and Lone Bear, a loud mouthed big brother type who could beat up anyone near his age and often did. The three were always together. They called him Curly to make fun of his light, wavy hair. Curly seldom got angry or pouted or blamed someone else. In spite of the bossy girl and bullying buddy he usually got his way. Not because he was tougher, or had a smarter mouth, but because he was always one step ahead. He had that complex quality, found in born leaders, we call charisma.

Curly wasn’t a carefree boy for very long. On the 19th day of August of 1854, at twelve years of age, he was caught up in The War of The Mormon Cow and rode through acrid smoke, whirring bullets and thrumming cannon balls to rescue Little Mouse.

This story is written in the meter and structure of the Sioux language, as Crazy Horse would have told it. It is mostly true but when history and legend conflict I choose legend, where the spirit of the Sioux still lives.

- Richard Jepperson

The War of the Mormon Cow is the story of Black Robe Woman and Crazy Horse, in their youth.

She called him Curly and he called her Little Mouse