Cover
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Book One: Gold and Souls
1: Smiling Captors
2: The Cities of Gold
3: So Beset with Hardships
4: Imperial Competition
5: Souls Without Gold
6: Love and Booty
7: The Empty Quarter
8: Mission Life
9: Americans
10: Green Flag, Red Blood
11: Strange Bedfellows
Book Two: From Empresarios to Independence
12: A Connecticut Yankee in King Ferdinand's Court
13: The Young Empresario
14: Pelts Passed Current
15: Gone to Texas
16: A Finger in the Dike
17: Almost a Black Colony
18: Flashpoint Doused
19: Sam Houston, Late of Tennessee
20: The Quiet Before the Storm
21: Come and Take It
22: Who Will Go with Old Ben Milam?
23: Pretended Government
24: I Am Determined to Die Like a Soldier
25: The New Nation
26: Brilliant, Pointless, Pyrrhic
27: How Did Davy Die?
28: The Ill-Fated Fannin
29: You Must Fight Them
30: The Battle of San Jacinto
Book Three: From Nation to State
31: Independence and the Southern Conspiracy
32: A New Country, a New City
33: Poet and President
34: The Sanguinary Savage
35: Retrenchment
36: The Annexation Quickstep
37: Nothing Wanting, Nothing Too Much
38: The State of Texas
39: Life in the Lone Star State
40: Still More Fighting
41: Slavery and Secession
42: A Little Terror
43: The War in Texas
44: Forty Acres and a Mule
45: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
Book Four: Cattle Empire
46: Clearing the Plains
47: Buffalo Days
48: The Red River War
49: Cattle Empire
50: The Populist Movement
51: Life by Mail Order
52: Final Raids
53: Fort Davis: Western Anchor
54: Law vs. Outlaw
55: Political Evolution
56: God Goes Primitive
57: Gaining Culture
Book Five: Oil Empire
58: Early Gushers
59: A New Century
60: Valley of the Shadow
61: Intelligent Patriotism and Flying Machines
62: Flappers and Fergusonism
63: So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
64: More Fergusons, and Worse
65: Texas at War, Again
66: Climbing jacob's Ladder
67: A Flowering of Texas Letters
68: Assassination, War, and Antiwar
69: Changes, Faster and Faster
Afterword
Selected Sources and Further Reading
Index