The head of Chief Crazy Horse.

The head of Chief Crazy Horse, the Sioux warrior who routed Lt. Col. George Armstrong Notable people named George Armstrong include:

George Armstrong (furniture manufacturer) (1821 – 1888), Canadian furniture manufacturer and undertaker.
George Armstrong (engineer), a Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Great Western Railway, and designer of a number

Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn Little Bighorn, river, c.90 mi (145 km) long, rising in the Bighorn Mts., N Wyo., and flowing north to join the Bighorn River in S Mont. On June 25–26, 1876, Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated the forces of Col. George Custer in the Little Bighorn valley. in 1876, rises out of Thunderhead Mountain Thunderhead Mountain is a mountain in the west-central part of the Great Smoky Mountains, located in the Southeastern United States. Rising along the border between Tennessee and North Carolina, the mountain dominates the Western Smokies. in Custer, S.D. The privately financed sculpture, begun in 1948, is 17 miles from Mount Rushmore. It will eventually depict Crazy Horse on horseback and with stand 563 feet tall. Some 8.5 million tons of granite have been blasted away by dynamite so far.

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Title Annotation:	News & Trends
Publication:	New York Times Upfront
Article Type:	Brief Article
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Date:	Oct 11, 2004
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