US Cavalryman 1865-1890 -- Historical background -- Enlistment -- Training -- Uniform and equipment -- Weapons -- Field service -- Combat and tactics -- Wounds and sickness -- Campaigns -- Sites of interest -- The American Plains Indians -- Community structure and camp life -- Hunting and the horse -- War -- Religion, ceremony and medicine -- Conquest -- The Apaches -- The Apache tribes -- Apache life -- War -- Religion -- The Apache Wars -- War with the Americans