LOL...my Puritan Ancestors killed (and were killed) up in Massachusetts long before it got to be a habit here.
So what are you reading? I highly recommend Indian Depredations in Texas, The Settlers' War, A Fate Worse Than Death, Captured and Nine Years Among the Comanches. Well, and the best novels--The Son, The Searchers, and The Unforgiven (the books are much better than the movies!).
I read much about your dastardly "Puritans" and how they set upon those innocent red men long ago, and will revisit them again later. James Fenimore Cooper is no doubt rolling in his grave because of it.
Having acquired some essentials about the ACW, I am now trying to reduce my ignorance about the moving American frontier, which includes usurping Indian lands with accompanying Indian-white man wars from Jamestown and Plymouth to 1907 when Indian Territory was taken from the red man as OK became a state. However, I'm working more or less from west to east because that correlates roughly with my ignorance quotient, being greatest in the West, having read about the New England frontiers and wars year ago.
I won't be reading much more about Indian depredations, having my fill of them from Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge's two books cited in other threads. An exception will be Herman Lehmann's
Nine Years Among the Indians because it is frequently cited by other authors.
Presently I'm reading Billington's
Westward Expansion, 6th ed. (more modern, but condensed from his 4th; see below) and
Contrary Neighbors by David LaVere.
Already read on the subject are the following:
Scalp Dance by Thomas Goodrich
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
Atlas of the North American Indian by Carl Waldman
William Tecumseh Sherman and the Settlement of the West by Robert Athearn
The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens
Sheridan's Troopers on the Borders by B. Randolph Keim
Following the Indian Wars by Oliver Knight
My Life on the Plains by George Custer
Gave up as being too abstract,
The Legacy of Conquest by Patricia Limerick
On hand to read are the following:
Westward Expansion, 4th ed. by Billington (most current expanded version; the 5th being the same but with an expanded bibliography)
The Oxford History of the American West by Clyde A. Milner, et. al.
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
History of the American Frontier 1763-1893 by Frederic Paxton
On my Wish List are 73 books on the removal of Indians from East to West, tribal histories, treaties histories, Indian wars during the Revolution and 1812 and Midwest Wars, expanding frontiers and wars in the original 13 colonies, experiences of famous trappers and traders, Indian Removal and other Acts to get rid of the red man. Included in the above are several volumes on the Texas Rangers.
FYI, I avoid reading more fiction except when a topical title piques my interest.