Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: In the Beginning: Lost Tribes, New Worlds, and the Perils of History 1
4. 1. Proof Positive: Hebraic Indians and the Emergence of Probability Theory 21
5. 2. “A Complete Indian System”: James Adair and the Ethnographic Imagination 55
6. 3. Elias Boudinot, William Apess, and the Accidents of History 85
7. 4. The Book of Mormon’s New American Past 113
8. 5. Indian Removal and the Decline of American Hebraism 142
9. 6. The Hollow Earth and the End of Time 169
10. Coda: DNA and the Recovery of History 197
11. Acknowledgments 211
12. Notes 215
13. Index 239
14. About the Author 243