An exhaustive story about the cruel and bloody wars of the US Army with the Indians of the Wild West from a leading Russian expert on the history and culture of Native Americans. Year after year, graduates of the famous West Point suffered defeats from “primitive savages” who studied the art of war not at the desks of a military academy, but in practice. “Save the last bullet for yourself,” was a common phrase that recruits heard from their officers before fighting Indian warriors. Mass killings and scalping of women and children, violation of peace treaties - there is no crime that the American “civilizers” would not commit, guided by the cannibalistic aphorism of General Sheridan: “A good Indian is a dead Indian.”