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