Illustrations | p. vii |
Maps | p. viii |
Preface | p. ix |
Before the Bloody Decade | |
"By naked conquest." | p. 1 |
"Your troubles and difficulties will not cease." | p. 7 |
p. 1860 | |
"I tried that Virginia back heel on him." | p. 12 |
"They held up their Bibles." | p. 16 |
"A drought of such continued severity was never known before." | p. 26 |
"This knife will take off my scalp before I get home." | p. 31 |
"Eating twice their own weight in beef." | p. 38 |
"Glorious News-Nine scalps taken." | p. 44 |
"I am going home to die no more." | p. 50 |
"MeCinceeAnn!" | p. 55 |
p. 1861 | |
"We will swoop down upon him at night." | p. 68 |
"He would not killey me." | p. 75 |
"They are afflicted with the disease known here as the 'Indian Grab.'" | p. 80 |
"One of the most daring and extensive raids ever known." | p. 85 |
"The soldiers did their best, but... " | p. 96 |
p. 1862 | |
They behaved "cowardly and disgracefully." | p. 100 |
"Kill all the grown Indians and take the children prisoners." | p. 107 |
"In the dark corner of the Confederacy. | p. 112 |
"Friendly and true to the White man for years." | p. 118 |
"Stock raisers and herders for the benefit of the Indians." | p. 124 |
1863 | |
"No army, no means, no system, no order." | p. 128 |
"I am afraid to live in this country any longer." | p. 138 |
"If you are a prisoner, don't be afraid." | p. 144 |
"What is one man's family to the whole of the Confederacy?" | p. 149 |
"We but little dread now of an invasion this winter." | p. 153 |
'Too late to pray now, the devil has come." | p. 159 |
1864 | |
"I saw my sister's ghastly look." | p. 166 |
"I have never been in a country where the people were so perfectly worthless." | p. 171 |
"There we found mother's bleached bones." | p. 176 |
"Indians are coming; get in the brush!" | p. 182 |
"I am astonished at the number of fools in Texas" | p. 191 |
1865 | |
"He recognized no friendly Indians on the Texas frontier." | p. 196 |
"Don't let them carry me away!" | p. 201 |
"The booger-man did it." | p. 207 |
"The wounds (from) scalping gave off such an offensive odor." | p. 213 |
"There must be a frontier somewhere." | p. 220 |
"They died of too large views." | p. 228 |
1866 | |
"The last time I saw my father, he was running for the creek." | p. 235 |
"They did not yell like white people." | p. 244 |
"I never sent anyone in search." | p. 251 |
"They are Indians we are gone." | p. 260 |
"Go with him and be a good boy." | p. 272 |
"Someone has killed a maverick here." | p. 281 |
"The Indians can be taught that Texas is a Part of the U. S." | p. 288 |
1867 | |
"When the soldiers got there the Indians got mean." | p. 304 |
"Well, I would call them unfriendly." | p. 311 |
"I regret to have to be laid away in a foreign country." | p. 316 |
"The children cried for milk." | p. 325 |
"The Indians of my agency have remained perfectly quiet and peaceable." | p. 332 |
1868 | |
"He was scalped and frozen when we found him." | p. 336 |
"This is my poor child's hair!" | p. 346 |
"The savings of all our youthful days was gone." | p. 351 |
"The troops delight in seeing the savages commit their murderous deeds," | p. 359 |
"Father, you will never come back." | p. 365 |
1869 | |
"What sort of a tale will we tell when we get home?" | p. 373 |
"If the Indians are going to kill us we need not let them get the watermelons." | p. 379 |
"If you can make Quakers out of the Indians it will take the fight out of them." | p. 385 |
"They still feel aggrieved." | p. 392 |
Postscript | p. 398 |
Selected list of civilians killed | p. 403 |
Troop strengths and civilian deaths | p. 409 |
Rainfall in Texas, 1860-65 | p. 410 |
Bibliography | p. 412 |
The Author | p. 425 |
Index | p. 427 |
Illustrations | |
Sam Houston, Governor of Texas | p. 23 |
The ruins of Fort Phantom Hill | p. 39 |
Parker's Fort, near Groesbeck, Texas | p. 57 |
Confederate Gen. Henry E. McCulloch | p. 71 |
Albert Pike, Confederate Commissioner to the Indian Nations | p. 73 |
Brit Johnson | p. 183 |
Marker at Elm Creek Raid site | p. 189 |
Todd Mountain, near Mason, Texas | p. 203 |
Site of Taylor-McDonald cabin, Harper, Texas | p. 218 |
Hondo River | p. 237 |
Governor James W. Throckmorton | p. 254 |
The Kiowa Satanta led the infamous Box Raid | p. 267 |
Texas cattleman Oliver Loving | p. 321 |
Fort Richardson, near Jacksboro, Texas | p. 329 |
Ruins of Fort Lancaster | p. 335 |
Kiowa leader Big Tree | p. 343 |
Upper Willawalla Valley, Montague, Texas | p. 357 |
Reconstructed cabins at Fort Griffin site | p. 375 |
Ruins of Fort McKavett | p. 380 |
The Author | p. 425 |
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