The premise of this story is a great topic that all Americans should learn about, the first major eastward counteroffensive by an indigenous alliance against the American frontier expansion while the entire country’s military was engaged in the raging civil war down south.However the book is sadly just not very captivating. It has all the content to be a great read, but the writing is just bland. Still interesting as a lot of information on the indigenous population around the upper Midwest (an area rarely discussed) is presented, but it just doesn’t hold one’s attention.