*Hard to put down,wasn't it doctor?
Indeed it was. Gwynne is a gifted writer and thorough researcher.
The atrocities that each warring faction committed upon the other make some of our gang POS' seem like a bunch of puzzies.
The only people I know of, historically speaking, with greater blood-thirst than the Plains Indians of the 19th century were the caucasian peoples of Europe from which most of us descend.
