Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Author's Preface; Special Acknowledgments; 1. Men and Things Are Changing Fast; 2. Now the Wolf Has Come; 3. Squally Times in This Territory; 4. An Enemy's Country; 5. Scattered Like Leaves; 6. The Terrors of War; 7. Only the Land; Bibliographic Essay; Bibliography; Notes
Summary
Winner of the 2014 Oklahoma Book Award for nonfiction Winner of the 2014 Pate Award from the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table. When the peoples of the Indian Territory found themselves in the midst of the American Civil War, squeezed between Union Kansas and Confederate Texas and Arkansas, they had no way to escape a conflict not of their choosing--and no alternative but to suffer its consequences. When the Wolf Came explores how the war in the Indian Territory involved almost every resident, killed many civilians as well as soldiers, left the country stripped and devastated, and cost Indian n
