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

Chronology

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.