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Digital fine art of the great native american War Chief Crazy House.

Crazy Horse was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by white American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the Black Hills War on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman Fight in 1866 in which he acted as a decoy and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 in which he led a war party to victory, earned him great respect from both his enemies and his own people.

In September 1877, four months after surrendering to U.S. troops under General George Crook, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a bayonet-wielding military guard while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska. He ranks among the most notable and iconic of Native American wa...

My Name is Walter Colvin, I am a 76-year-old retired disabled war veteran. I have been doing artwork from fun for about 17 years. I started out with oil, acrylic, pencil, and charcoal. Most of the artwork I did was for friends on request. I have only started to sell to public for about five years. Almost all the artwork I do now is digital art on the computer and digital photography. Started digital art about eight Years ago. I do miss brushing oil around on the canvas, but digital art is new challenge I enjoy. Most of the art I do is nature, wildlife and Landscape, but I do others from abstract to space. My goal in digital fine art is to make my digital art as good as a fine Oil painting. I would do my artwork even if I never sold...