oh, my gosh, i can still remember everything of the two hours, dustin hoffman, customer as a deranged maniac. it blue my -- blew my head of. i was captured by this. what was this all about? in the 1980s when some of the morning came out, this story made me think, boy, i'd like to return to that someday, and then in 2006 when i was finishing mayflower, in that book i write about the iconic book that many americans associate with the beginning of this country, the pilgrims and the voyage of the may flower. then i realized the story doesn't end with the first thanksgiving. i took it to the first time when innative conflict e resulted known as -- erupted to which many americans know nothing about. we think of the civil war being the bloodiest, but when you look at the percentage of population killed, king fill lip's -- phillip's war was twice as deadly. this is my take on the iconic beginning. where does this process lead? where does the push west across this continent leave in an iconic sense? it leads to the battle of the little big horn. i got up the courage to tackle this event that t