- Prologue: Hoofbeats
- THE NEW MEN: Jumping off
- The glittering world
- The army of the West
- Singing grass
- Blue Bead Mountain
- Who is James K. Polk?
- What a wild life!
- The ruling hand of providence
- The pathfinder
- When the land is sick
- The un-Alamo
- We will correct all this
- Narbona Pass
- The uninvaded silence
- On the altar of the country
- A perfect butchery
- The fire of Montezuma
- Your duty, Mr. Carson
- Daggers in every look
- Men with ears down to their ankles
- The hall of final ruin
- A BROKEN COUNTRY: The grim metronome
- Lords of the mountains
- The devil's turnpike
- Our red children
- Cold steel
- El Crepusculo
- American mercury
- Time at last sets all things even
- The finest head I ever saw
- The death knot
- Men without eyes
- Blood and thunder
- MONSTER SLAYER: The fearing time
- People of the single star
- The sons of some dear mother
- The round forest
- Children of the mist
- General orders no. 15
- Fortress rock
- The long walk
- Adobe walls
- The condition of the tribes
- Crossing purgatory
- Epilogue: In beauty we walk.