Table of Contents
Introduction vii
List of Maps x
Chapter 1 Washington's Best Boy 1
Chapter 2 The Swamp Fox 27
Chapter 3 Eclipse for the Horse Soldiers 32
Chapter 4 The Trail Guards Appear 37
Chapter 5 Sabers on the Prairie 47
Chapter 6 Across the Rio Grande 72
Chapter 7 Montezuma Country 81
Chapter 8 Kearny and the Prima Donna 92
Chapter 9 The Dragon Slayer 99
Chapter 10 Footnote to the Horse Officers 110
Chapter 11 The Time of the Paper Peace 118
Chapter 12 The Rising Son-in-Law 135
Chapter 13 Stuart Writes a Poem 147
Chapter 14 The North Almost Rallies 156
Chapter 15 The Cavalier Probes North 168
Chapter 16 The Crucial Year 184
Chapter 17 The Cavalier Versus the Fop 191
Chapter 18 A Place Called Yellow Tavern 205
Chapter 19 An Ugly Little Irishman 211
Chapter 20 Sheridan Makes His Ride 233
Chapter 21 The Mop-Up 239
Chapter 22 Three Highly Independent Operations 246
Chapter 23 Meanwhile, Back in The West… 280
Chapter 24 The Man who Hired Hostiles 306
Chapter 25 Some Small Wars 361
Chapter 26 Disaster on Horseback 364
Chapter 27 They Danced in their Shirts 387
Chapter 28 The Buffalo Troopers 402
Chapter 29 The Last Chapter 408
A Few Useful Books 422
Index 426
