Foreword
1. To Where There Was Little Water
2. Over the Road to Santa Fe
3. Along the Upper Missouri and Beyond
4. Traders and Indians
5. When the Emigrants Started West
6. Along the Pacific Slope
7. Military Posts and Freighters
8. Rush to the Rockies
9. The Civil War
10. The Iron Horse Arrives
11. The Selling of the Great American Desert
12. The Business of Towns
13. Into the Southwest
14. The Desert Southwest
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index