Killing for Land -- Killing for Land -- in Early California -- - -- Indian Blood at Round Valley -- Founding the Nome Cult Indian Farm -- Frank H. Baumgardner III -- Acknowledgments -- Main Characters -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Two first impressions of California -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Yukis Meet White Men -- "Nearly the Whole Number Destroyed": Patterns of Violence in Northern California -- "Their Own Name for Themselves": The Original Inhabitants -- A "Just and Equitable Title": After the War with Mexico -- "The Founders of Human Civilization": The Settlers -- "Expensive Wars and Barbarous Devastation": The Effect of White Settlement on Native Peoples -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. The Establishment of Nome Cult Farm -- Kidnapping of Native American Children -- Chapter 3. The Army, the Settlers, and the Office of Indian Affairs in 1857-1858: Conflicting Views of a Complicated Situation -- Chapter 3. The Army, the Settlers, and the Office of Indian Affairs -- The Army vs. The Indian Affairs Office -- The Settlers -- Reservation Officials and the Office of Indian Affairs -- The Conflict Converges -- Chapter 4. Gen. Kibbe's "Expedition" or, the War with the Win-toons 1858-1859 -- The "War with the Win-toons" -- Chapter 5. Vengeance and Taking the Land-Eden and Round Valleys, 1859-1860 -- Chapter 6. The Woes of the Settlers and Ranchers -- Chapter 7. The Employees' Depositions -- James Tobin -- Simmon P. Storms -- George Rees -- Other Reservation Employees -- Chapter 8. Depositions of the Soldiers -- Chapter 9. Journalism of the Period and Round Valley in the 1860s -- Regional News Reports -- Reservation Building, Round Valley Style -- Chapter 10. The Rejected Majority Report, 1860 -- Chapter 11. "Arrant Fabrications": The 1860 Congressional Debate and Kidnapping Native- American Children.

Chapter 11. "Arrant Fabrications": Kidnapping Native-American Children -- Superintendent Hanson and the Kidnapping Rings -- Chapter 12. Native Americans Retaliate -- Horse Canyon, a Yuki Revolt, Little Stony Creek and the Army's Return, September 1861-April 1863 -- A Mendocino Herald Investigation -- The Horse Canyon Massacre -- The Little Stony Creek Massacre -- The Concows Leave the Valley -- Another Attempted Yuki Uprising -- Chapter 13. Tension Mounts between Native Americans and Settlers -- Chapter 14. Company F Occupies Round Valley and Declares Martial Law, August 1862-Spring 1863 -- Chapter 14. Company F Occupies Round Valley and declares Martial Law -- Chapter 15. Further Injustice, 1863-1864 -- The Legacy of the Mendocino War -- Chapter 16. Conclusion: "Justifiable Conquest"? -- Office of Indian Affairs Expenditures -- Postscripts of Round Valley's Main Characters -- Appendices -- 1. Deposition of S.P. Storms, Overseer at Nome Cult -- 2. Indian Population in the Western States and Territories, 1860 -- 3. Round Valley Native Americans -- Bibliography -- Books and Articles -- Newspapers -- Websites and articles -- Federal or state official reports and records: -- Census Reports -- Unpublished theses, dissertations or other scholarly articles -- Special collections -- Personal interviews -- Index.