Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-271) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The Great American Desert -- Long's report and Indian removal -- Between the droughts -- Drought and buffalo migration -- The Texas Indian reserves -- The retreating frontier of the mid-century -- The Five Tribes and the Confederacy -- The early Civil War years in Indian Territory -- The last war years in Indian Territory -- Crime in Civil War Texas -- Boomer bust -- Attempts at rainmaking -- And the skies are not cloudy all day -- Epilogue.
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