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To be honest I love westerns and anything set in the deep south, I've read a few books like this one, I find that I end up burning myself out after a while if I stick with them for too long

for example whilst this book was fucking brilliant it was a proper slog to get through



The lore and the legends, the lawmen and the bad men, the rise of the cattle barons and the tragic demise of the Plains Indians, the pioneers and the forty-niners, Little Big Horn and the Alamo, Calamity Jane and Crazy Horse -- from the Alleghenies to the Rockies the events that shaped the West and the people who tamed it are featured in this vivid anecdotal history, which draws upon firsthand testimony and contemporary documents to provide a compelling and comprehensive account of a land as it became a nation.
If that is what you enjoy then you would absolutely love 'Scouting on Two Continents'....just got through a part where Major Burnham (then a young adult perhaps in his 20's) and friends help dissuade a lynch mob who are in a frenzy of blood lust. That was but a small chapter, his smuggler friend taught Major Burnham how to throw other scouts off his trail which was quite interesting as well as Major Burnham's surprisingly clear view of the issues with the Indians. He indeed called them along with native tribes in Africa "savages" as was the parlance of their time, but he admitted to the wrongdoings of those in power in the Indian Affairs Bureau and the like, their repeated nixing of treaties, the going back on their word, the breach of trust which left many a bridge burned and doubtless cost the lives of thousands of people both settlers and Indians.

He's one interesting and smart dude, if you like those books you'd like his.