I expected this book to be heavy slogging, but it was, excepting the occasional florid phrase, very well written and I enjoyed it. There's even quite a bit of humor. Custer does call the Indians "savages" and 'sneaky" when they were, in fact, being savage and sneaky. But he was also willing to befriend, sympathize with and even admire them. I was aware throughout that I was reading a one-sided view. For example, he has nothing to say about his court-martial and suspension for being AWOL, but he does include an account of the time when he was far from camp hunting buffalo by himself and accidentally shot his own horse in the head, killing it instantly.