Table of Contents

• Foreword by Edwin T. Arnold
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introductions
  • The Problem of Information
  • Three Sections
  • Scalp Hunting and the Glanton Gang
  • Indian Haters
• 2. Biographies
  • Reverend Green
  • Judge Holden
  • Captain White
  • John Joel Glanton
  • Albert Speyer
  • Consul Bennett Riddells
  • Governor Angel Trias
  • Grannyrat
  • Bathcat
  • Mangas Colorado
  • Sarah Borginnis
  • Yuma Chiefs
  • Callaghan
• 3. Settings and Sources
  • Leonids
  • Comanche Attack
  • Ciboleros
  • Hueco Tanks
  • JesÚs MarÍa
  • Wild Bull
  • Meteorite
  • June 11, 1850
  • Fort Griffin
  • Chamberlain
  • Ruxton
  • Hobbs
  • Audubon
  • Bartlett
  • Wislizenus
  • Hughes
  • Mayne Reid
  • Dobie
  • Ober
  • Bourke
• 4. Addenda
  • Languages: Spanish, French, German
  • Map Citations
• Essays
  • 5. Tarot and Divination
  • 6. Judge Holden's Gunpowder
  • 7. Knitting the Winds
  • 8. Why Believe the Judge?
• 9. Concordances
  • Narrative Voice
  • Wolves
  • Apes
  • Smiles and Laughter
  • Egg and Dome
  • Fools and Crazies
  • Hallucinatory Void
  • Celestial
  • Marine
  • Carnival
  • Religious
  • Ritual, Music, and Dance
  • Chance, Fortune, and Deception
  • "Knitting the Winds" Concordances: Reins, Strap, String, Thread
  • "As if . . . in a dream"
  • The Kid Helps
  • Look . . . Look Away
  • Horses Shy, Horses Steady
  • Agency, Commitment, Witness
• 10. Massacre Accounts
  • New York Daily Tribune
  • William Carr's Los Angeles Deposition
  • Daily Alta California
• Bibliography
• Index

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