Status Updates From Scalp Dance

This book absolutely rips. Tons of first hand stuff, factually stated with no axe to grind in either direction.

Fanny Kelly:

I had read of ... all the characters of romance and history, wherein the nature of the red man is enshrined in poetic beauty. The untutored nobility of soul, the brave generosity, the simple dignity untrammeled by the hollow conventionalities of civilized life, all rose mockingly before me, and the heroes of my youthful imagination passed through my mind in strange contrast with the flesh and blood real