Ch. 1. Black Legend, Red Men: New Spain (1492-1751)
Ch. 2. "To Subdue the Wilde Salvages:" Jamestown and the Southern Settlements (1607-1671)
Ch. 3. Trouble in New Canaan: The Pequot War (1634-1638)
Ch. 4. New England Bleeds: King Philip's War (1675-1676)
Ch. 5. Trade and Tyranny: The Dutch-Indian Wars (1626-1664)
Ch. 6. Iroquoian Imperialism: The Beaver Wars (1638-1684)
Ch. 7. Clients, Allies, Enemies, and a Demagogue: The Indian War of 1675-1676
Ch. 8. Old World Enmities, New World Battles: The Wars of King William and Queen Anne (1688-1713)
Ch. 9. Desperate Resistance: The Tuscarora and Yamassee Wars (1710-1716)
Ch. 10. An Ear and an Empire: The Fox Resistance, King George's War, and the Chickasaw Resistance (1712-1748)
Ch. 11. Paths of Glory: The Period of the French and Indian War (1749-1763)
Ch. 12. Coda and Prelude: The Epoch of Pontiac's Rebellion, the Paxton Riots, and Lord Dunmore's War (1760-1774)
Ch. 13. White War, Red Blood, the Revolutionary Period (1774-1784)
Ch. 14. After the Revolution: Little Turtle's War (1780-1795)
Ch. 15. Forlorn Prophecy: The Period of Tecumseh and the War of 1812 (1805-1814)
Ch. 16. Wars of the Removal: The South (1812-1858)
Ch. 17. Wars of the Removal: The Old Northwest (1812-1833)
Ch. 18. The Wars for the West: Overture (1840s-1850s)
Ch. 19. Early Wars in the Far West (1850-1859)
Ch. 20. On the Eve of Civil War (1851-1860)
Ch. 21. Blue, Gray, and Red: The Apache Uprising and Navajo War (1861-1864)
Ch. 22. Blue, Gray and Red: The Santee Sioux Uprising, the Shoshoni War, and the Cheyenne-Arapaho War (1862-1865)
Ch. 23. Wars on the Plains (1860-1869)
Ch. 24. The Fate of "Conquest by Kindness": The Snake War, the Modoc War, and the Red River War (1866-1875)
Ch. 25. The Northern Plains and the Northwest: The Sioux War for the Black Hills and the Pursuit of the Nez Perces (1876-1881)
Ch. 26. Wars Against the Bannocks, Sheepeaters, and Utes (1878-1879)
Ch. 27. The Apache Epoch (1870-1886)
Epilogue: Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee.