- Introduction: The Indigenous Body in Pain
- 1. Spanish–Ute Relations to 1750
- 2. The Making of the New Mexican–Ute Borderlands
- 3. The Enduring Spanish–Ute Alliance
- 4. Crisis in the New Mexican–Ute Borderlands
- 5. Great Basin Indians in the Era of Lewis and Clark
- 6. Colorado Utes and the Traumatic Storms of Expansion
- 7. Utah’s Indians and the Crisis of Mormon Settlement
- Epilogue: Born on the Fourth of July, or Narrating Nevadan Indian Histories
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Violence over the Land
Indians and Empires in the Early American West
Product Details
PAPERBACK
$29.00 • £25.95 • €26.95
ISBN 9780674027206
Publication Date: 04/30/2008
Awards & Accolades
- Most Influential Books in Native American and Indigenous Studies of the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century Prize, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
- 2007 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, American Society of Ethnohistory
- 2007 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association
- 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
- 2006 William P. Clements Prize, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University