1. At the dawn of the American invasion
2. The Texas creed in a Tejano and Indian land
3. Mexican politics and the struggle to settle early Texas
4. The muddle of early Mexican federalism
5. Centralists and the struggle for Texas land
6. The Americanization of Texas
7. The Texas creed and the clouds of war
8. Revolution and the "rumor" of Indian war
10. Sam Houston, the legislature, and a failed Indian policy
11. Lamar, his generals, and ethnic cleansing
12. The Indians' last stand in central Texas
13. The failure of well-intended efforts
14. The boundary line fiasco
15. Lines, politics, depredations, and the U.S. Army
16. General Persifor Smith and the salvation of Texas
17. Reservations or concentration camps?
19. Anarchy and "total war"
21. Indians and the civil war
22. The final ethnic cleansing of Texas
