Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. FOREWORD VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIV
4. TABLE OF CONTENTS XV
5. ILLUSTRATIONS XVI
6. PLATES XVII
7. PART I Before the Written Record
8. CHAPTER 1 The Beginnings 3
9. PART II Savages of the Western Gulf Culture Area
10. CHAPTER 2 The Coahuiltecans: South Texas 29
11. CHAPTER 3 The Karankawas: Gulf Coast 59
12. PART III Nomads of the Plains
13. CHAPTER 4 From Foot to Horse 85
14. CHAPTER 5 The Lipan Apaches: Conquerors Dispossessed 103
15. CHAPTER 6 The Tonkawas: Central Texas 133
16. CHAPTER 7 Comanches: Terror of the Southern Plains 155
17. CHAPTER 8 Kiowas and Kiowa Apaches: Far-Ranging Raiders 193
18. PART IV Barbaric Gardeners
19. CHAPTER 9 The Jumanos: Southwestern Borders 225
20. CHAPTER 10 The Wichitas: Nations of the North 247
21. CHAPTER 11 The Caddo Confederacies: East Texas 279
22. CHAPTER 12 The Provincial Atakapans 315
23. PART V Bitter Bread of Banishment
24. CHAPTER 13 Extermination and Oblivion 333
25. BIBLIOGRAPHY 365
26. INDEX 379