Copyright -- Title Page -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. The Comanches -- State of the Texas Frontier System: January 1840 -- Johnston Orders Fisher to San Antonio -- Greer's Rangers and the Travis Guards -- 2. The Council House Fight -- 3. Spring Expeditions -- Captain Howard Negotiates Prisoner Release -- Captain Jackson's Fannin County Rangers -- Burleson Readies an Expedition -- Colonel Wheeler's Campaign -- Lieutenant Wells' Rangers -- Stout and Stout's Red River Ranger Companies -- Frontier Regiment: May-June 1840 -- Summer Depredations and the "Border Guards" -- Cunningham's Clash: July 4, 1840 -- Major Durst's Nacogdoches Battalion -- Death of Henry Karnes -- 4. The Great Comanche Raid -- Ponton and Foley Attacked: August 5 -- Volunteer Forces Unit: August 6-7 -- The Victoria and Linnville Raids: August 6-8 -- 5. "IF WE CAN'T WHIP 'EM, WE CAN TRY!" -- The Battle of Plum Creek: August 12, 1840 -- 6. Moore's Comanche Village Raid -- Erath's Expedition: August-September 1840 -- Major Howard's Expedition to the Nueces -- John Moore's Comanche Raid: October 24, 1840 -- 7. The Great Military Road -- Ranger Units of Fall 1840 -- The Great Military Road: August-November 1840 -- Murder of James Childers: December 13, 1840 -- 8. The New Frontier "Minute Men" -- The 1841 Texas Rangers -- The Morehouse Campaign: February 1841 -- Military Funding Cutbacks -- The County Minutemen -- The Yeary and Rowland Depredations: March 14, 1841 -- Captain Dolson's Fight: March 31, 1841 -- End of the Frontier Regiment: January-March 1841 -- Jack Hays' Laredo Fight: April 7, 1841 -- 9. The Lewis Expedition -- Captain Chandler's Minutemen -- Ben McCulloch's Fights: Early May 1841 -- Chandler's Wise County Expedition -- Captain Lewis' Expedition: Late May 1841 -- 10. The Village Creek Expedition -- Tarrant's Expedition: May-June 1841.

Battle of Village Creek: May 24, 1841 -- Ambush and Death of Captain Denton -- 11. "Active and Energetic Measures" -- Chandler's Cross Timbers Fight: June 9, 1841 -- Tarrant's Trinity Campaign -- General Smith's Trinity Campaign: July 1841 -- Jack Hays' Uvalde Canyon Fight: June 29, 1841 -- 12. The Gulf Coast Minutemen -- West Texas Rangers Captured -- Dimmitt's Capture and the Corpus Christi Minutemen -- The Refugio Attack and Cairnes' Rangers -- Baker and McDaniel's Refugio Rangers -- 13. "Bravo Too Much" -- Chandler-Erath Expedition: August 1841 -- Paschal, Red River, and Lamar County Rangers -- Hays' Fight on the Llano: July 24, 1841 -- Burleson Recruits for Expedition -- Sowell's Fannin County Minutemen -- Callahan's Gonzales County Minutemen -- 14. Enchanted Rock and Bird's Fort -- The Legend of Enchanted Rock -- Major Bird's Fort on the Trinity -- Final Days of the Frontier Minutemen -- Afterword -- Appendix A: Texan Casualties of the Frontier Indian Wars, 1840-41 -- Appendix B: Roster of 1841 Rangers and County Minutemen by Units -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.