Introduction: In the beginning: lost tribes, new worlds, and the perils of history
Proof positive: Hebraic Indians and the emergence of probability theory
"A complete Indian system": James Adair and the ethnographic imagination
Elias Boudinot, William Apess, and the accidents of history
The Book of Mormon's new American past
Indian removal and the decline of American Hebraism
The hollow Earth and the end of time
Coda: DNA and the recovery of history