Prologue: Paha Sapa 1(18)
PART I THE PRAIRIE
1 First Contact
19(16)
2 Guns and Badlands
35(14)
3 The Black Hills and Beyond
49(12)
4 "Red Cloud Comes!"
61(14)
5 Counting Coup
75(7)
6 "Print the Legend"
82(11)
PART II THE INVASION
7 Old Gabe
93(9)
8 The Glory Road
102(6)
9 Pretty Owl and Pine Leaf
108(14)
10 A Blood-Tinged Season
122(9)
11 A Lone Stranger
131(11)
12 Samuel Colt's Invention
142(7)
13 A Brief Respite
149(7)
14 The Dakotas Rise
156(13)
PART III THE RESISTANCE
15 Strong Hearts
169(7)
16 An Army in Shambles
176(7)
17 Blood on the Ice
183(7)
18 The Great Escape
190(10)
19 Bloody Bridge Station
200(6)
20 The Hunt for Red Cloud
206(7)
21 Burn the Bodies; Eat the Horses
213(10)
PART IV THE WAR
22 War Is Peace
223(10)
23 Big Bellies and Shirt Wearers
233(7)
24 Colonel Carrington's Circus
240(7)
25 Here Be Monsters
247(6)
26 The Perfect Fort
253(7)
27 "Mercifully Kill All the Wounded"
260(10)
28 Roughing It
270(9)
29 A Thin Blue Line
279(7)
30 Fire in the Belly
286(8)
31 High Plains Drifters
294(9)
PART V THE MASSACRE
32 Fetterman
303(7)
33 Dress Rehearsal
310(7)
34 Soldiers in Both Hands
317(6)
35 The Half-Man's Omen
323(7)
36 Broken Arrows
330(6)
37 "Like Hogs Brought to Market"
336(7)
38 Fear and Mourning
343(8)
Epilogue 351(16)
Acknowledgments 367(2)
Notes and Bibliography 369(30)
Index 399