Scalp dance is a great book. Did you know the John Wayne Classic, the searchers, was based on a true story? Get this one as well to read it - https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Blood-Centennial-Association-University/dp/1603441093
While waiting for the book to,arrive, read the self penned narrative written by the real “searcher” and his captured niece here - https://archive.org/stream/rachelplummernar00park/rachelplummernar00park_djvu.txt
After reading this, you’ll never fall for that leftist, glorified ntrope about the “noble”, and moral Indian. Make no mistake about it, they were savages without any compassion or sympathy for life as we know it.
Books that influenced me to begin reading non PC history were..
MASSACRES OF THE MOUNTAINS by Dunn Jr
The Indian War of 1864 by Capt Eugene Ware
ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK by Bourke.
Along with many of the personal accounts of the Mountain Men at that time.