Y401

Great Americans

Crazy Horse - Lakota War Leader of the Oglala Band

Spring 2017 Mail Sale Commentary 

Lot 13 Y401 — Chief Crazy Horse 

This is a landmark cover of my early years as I personally serviced it during a blizzard in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The adventurous trip is recalled on book pages 42 and 43. A pair of stamps has the Crazy Horse, SD first day of issue cancel. Since this was a branch of the Custer, SD Post Office, I was also able to obtain a beautiful killer bar Custer postmark. What a philatelic item — two first day cancels with names of both adversaries who met in battle at the Little Big Horn — Chief Crazy Horse (the brave Sioux warrior) and George Armstrong Custer (the daring horse soldier). The hand painted cachet shows the defiant chief riding his war pony with rifle held aloft. It's a tremendous Collins Cover.