Introduction: Indians, Ideology, and the Press -- 1. Discovery, Destiny, and Savagery: Imagining Indians in America -- 2. Romance and Rumor: The Indian in the Antebellum Press -- 3. Explaining Indian Removal -- 4. The Daily Rocky Mountain News and the Scandal of Sand Creek -- 5. The War in Words: Reporting the Fetterman Fight -- 6. The Making of an Indian Villain: Sitting Bull in War and Peace -- 7. Indian Reformers and the Idealized Indian -- Conclusion: The Newspaper Indian