Table of Contents:
  • Before the written record. The beginnings
  • Savages of the Western Gulf culture area. The Coahuiltecans : South Texas ; The Karankawas : Gulf Coast
  • Nomads of the plains. From foot to horse ; The Lipan Apaches : conquerors dispossessed ; The Tonkawas : Central Texas ; Comanches : terror of the Southern Plains ; Kiowas and Kiowa Apaches : far-ranging raiders
  • Barbaric gardeners. The Jumanos : southwestern borders ; The Wichitas : nations of the north ; The Caddo confederacies : East Texas ; The provincial Atakapans
  • Bitter bread of banishment. Extermination and oblivion.