This book is important, and important books don't need to be artistically written, but its quite a relief when they are. I found this book to be a slog to read, which dampened its importance because I wasn't engaged. That being said, Native American removal was and is a series of actions big and small that aren't thrilling but are critical to understand. This book reads like a textbook, one you should read but one that perhaps you set down a few times before powering through.