From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: The myth of colonial America --
The Dawn of the Indigenous Continent (the first seventy millennia). The world on the turtle's back --
The egalitarian continent --
Appear at a Distance Like Giants (the long sixteenth century). Terra nullius --
Wars at the water's edge --
The Pequots shall no more be called Pequots --
The Contest for the Great American Interior (early and mid-seventeenth century). The rise of the five nations league --
The Indigenous Backlash (late seventeenth century). The English as a little child --
Virginia's civil and uncivil wars --
The great southwestern rebellion --
The Enduring Indigenous Continent (early eighteenth century). Holding the line --
They smelled like alligators --
An infinity of rancherías --
The Heart of the Continent (mid- and late eighteenth century). Magic dogs --
Wars to the end of the world --
British America besieged --
Worldly and otherworldly wars of independence --
American Revolutions (late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century). The American crucible --
The white devil with his mouth wide open --
The Age of Equestrian Empires (nineteenth century). The long removal era --
The Comanche ascendancy --
Epilogue: Revenge and revival.
