Table of Contents Acknowledgments--v Preface--1 1.Don't Try and Cross the River There--5 2.Popularity Is His God--13 3.Subsisted on a Tall Grass--25 4.You Know Not What You Are Doing--34 5.A Dreadful Scene--40 6.We Laughed in Spite of Our Danger--57 7.We Shall Need More Guns--81 8.
I Have a Great Many Prisoners, Women and Children--93 9.They Will Never Get My Live Body--102 10.Maniacs or Wild Beasts--113 11.Five Minutes Would Dispose of a Case--121 12.The Shot That Killed Him--140 13.The Girl I Left Behind Me--146 14.The Results Are Entirely Satisfactory--164 15.An Indian Campaign Is Approved--180 16.
Am I Free, Indeed Free?--196 17.They Fear It Is Only a Trap--213 18.The Indian No Longer Has a Country--224 Appendix: Timeline of the Dakota War of 1862-1865--229 Chapter Notes--233 Bibliography--241 Index--247.