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Index
Cover
Dedication
Prologue: Paha Sapa
Map: Red Cloud’s Territory at the Height of His Power
Part I: The Prairie
1. First Contact
2. Guns and Badlands
Map: The Western Tribes Before the Civil War
3. The Black Hills and Beyond
4. “Red Cloud Comes!”
5. Counting Coup
6. “Print the Legend”
Part II: The Invasion
7. Old Gabe
Map: The Oregon Trail
8. The Glory Road
9. Pretty Owl and Pine Leaf
10. A Blood-Tinged Season
11. A Lone Stranger
12. Samuel Colt’s Invention
13. A Brief Respite
14. The Dakotas Rise
Part III: The Resistance
15. Strong Hearts
16. An Army in Shambles
17. Blood on the Ice
18. The Great Escape
Map: Gen. Patrick Connor’s 1865 Campaign
19. Bloody Bridge Station
20. The Hunt for Red Cloud
21. Burn the Bodies; Eat the Horses
Part IV: The War
22. War Is Peace
Map: The Bozeman Trail
23. Big Bellies and Shirt Wearers
24. Colonel Carrington’s Circus
25. Here Be Monsters
26. The Perfect Fort
27. “Mercifully Kill All the Wounded”
28. Roughing It
Map: For Phil Kearny, November 1866
29. A Thin Blue Line
30. Fire in the Belly
31. High Plains Drifters
Part V: The Massacre
32. Fetterman
33. Dress Rehearsal
34. Soldiers in Both Hands
35. The Half-Man’s Omen
Map: The “Fetterman Massacre” Battlefield
36. Broken Arrows
37. “Like Hogs Brought to Market”
38. Fear and Mourning
Epilogue
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Notes and Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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