Picked this up at a thrift store since the subject looked interesting. As one reader pointed out, there are no quotations so it was hard for me to keep up with who was saying what. I felt like the locations jumped around and that was hard to keep straight too.

I noticed that the author is from New York and I wonder if he'd ever ventured out to Little Big Horn or Montana. Or maybe I'm not understanding what he describing, but in chapter three he writes:

"The three scouts left again in the deep blue just before dawn. Rain lay heavily on the leaves of the cottonwoods and wet on their faces. A flock of white birds led them over wide open pale gold grasslands. Bradley had dreamed of his father, sleeping fitfully. The weather broke for a few hours and though it was still cloudy, a teasing purple-edged sun peeked over the great and distant mountains. They rode toward it. They circled the river valley, skirted the edge and headed west onto the high plains." At that area of Montana, the mountains are west, not east as he describes so the sun would be rising east over the plains, not west over the mountains. Just kinda ruined it for me since the author missed that detail.

But I thought that his descriptions were really vivid and well done though, so there's that. Battlefield descriptions were almost uncomfortable to read!

Wish I could give it a 2.5 but I just couldn't give it a three, so two it is. ( )

This read is about three young Army scouts living in the months just after the battle of Little Bighorn who come face to face with their complicity in a series of slaughters. The United States Army’s mission is to herd the last free native tribes onto reservations which became one of bloody retribution. It is a powerful novel which draws you into a gripping read which captures the horror and shock that these three young scouts encounter and become part of……The one thing I didn’t like is the fact that there are no speech marks throughout and it’s a bit hard to know what is conversation and what is not. ( )

Group F