Violence over the land: Indians and empires in the early American West

Introduction: the Indigenous body in pain

Spanish-Ute relations to 1750

The making of the new Mexican-Ute borderlands

The enduring Spanish-Ute alliance

Crisis in the new Mexican-Ute borderlands

Great Basin Indians in the era of Lewis and Clark

Colorado Utes and the traumatic storms of expansion

Utah's Indians and the crisis of Mormon settlement

Epilogue: born on the Fourth of July, or Narrating Nevadan Indian histories.