Virginia McConnell Simmons is the author of The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico (UPC) and The San Luis Valley: Land of the Six-Armed Cross (UPC)., as well as hundreds of articles for journals, magazines, and newspapers.

• ; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1; Mother Earth, Father Sky; 2; The Nuu-ci; 3; The Coming of the White Man (1598-1821); 4; Trappers, Traders, and Transition (1810-1846); 5; On a Collision Course (1846-1858); 6; Sherman's Solution: Freeze and Starve (1859-1867); 7; Attempts to Create Reservations (1868-1874); 8; Beating Plowshares into Swords (1875-1881); 9; The Unraveling Begins (1882-1895); 10; Disorder and Chaos (1896-1915); 11; From the Ashes: Today's Ute Indians; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

"Simmons movingly and accurately relates this human tragedy [of modern Ute history] even into the cultural revitalization movements of recent times."—Choice