This book was well-written and easy to follow. It seemed well-researched. I found the narration easy to listen to. I was disappointed that the author quickly brushed over most of the events of the Sioux uprising itself to dwell more on the retribution and other events that followed. The reader needs to keep in mind that the people in this book lived in a very different time than our own, with different life experiences and different standards. I did appreciate how the author wove the story into the other significant events of the time, mainly the Civil War.