Finally an historian has the courage to buck the PC juggernaut and give us real accounts of the savagery and terror experienced by those lonely pioneers and early settlers in the American West. One very enlightening message of this nicely written book is the dichotomy of feeling toward the Indians by those whites who lived constantly in harm's way on the frontier and viewed them largely as savages, and the far off Easterners who faced no threat and viewed Indians as "noble savages," the view that prevails today as the Indian threat has vanished.