The Great Chiefs Author:Benjamin Capps Time-Life series called "The Old West" — On Cover: This portrait of Crow chief He Who Jumps over Everyone, astride a war pony whose feather plumage matches his own, was created by artist George Catlin in the 1830's. At the time, the leaders of the Western tribes were hardly aware of the stirrings of a white horde on the margins of their dominio... more »n. By the end of the 19th Century, the threat had swept them to ruin and only elegies remained--none more masterful than E.S. Curtis' frontispiece photograph of Chief Red Hawk. The Sioux leader had helped vanquish Custer at the Little Bighorn in 1876 and lived to see his tribe suffer a countermassacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.« less