For the time being I put Dreadnought aside and am reading The Great Iron Trail by Robert W. Howard. Scanning through the book while reading it I found this to be one heck of a read - especially for history buffs and those specializing in writing western stories. This is what, once more, we were not taught in school -- seems we only got the good stuff -- what they didn't tell us is what went on during the years following the Civil War until May 10, 1869 makes today's politics tame by comparision. # # #