“I looked about me in life and in history and literature and I saw that there were two kinds of men, the defeated and the undefeated, and that surely the last was the first.”

— Mari Sandoz, author of Crazy Horse:  Strange Man of the Oglalas and Cheyenne Autumn.    

Quoted in Bruce Nicoll, “Mari Sandoz:  Nebraska Loner.”  The American West 2.2 (Spring 1965): 32-36.