Ritual Ground
  Acknowledgments

 expand sectionChapter 1  Hearts and Minds
 expand sectionChapter 2  Realms of Meaning
 expand sectionChapter 3  Nostalgia for Paradise
 collapse sectionChapter 4  Castle on the Plains
 •New Relationships
 •Bent & St. Vrain Company
 •Position, Strategy, and Execution
 •Prehistoric Trade Between Pueblos and Nomadic Groups
 •The Proto-Historic Period
 •Ideology and the Europeans
 •The Cheyenne and Arapaho
 •The Native American "Wild Card"
 •American Entry into the Southwestern Fur Trade
 •Mexican Independence
 •Mexican Independence and Native American Relations
 •The Preeminence of Bent & St. Vrain Company
 •After the Mexican War
 expand sectionChapter 5  Ritual Trade
 expand sectionChapter 6  Bent's Old Fort as the New World
 expand sectionChapter 7  Circuits of Power
 expand sectionChapter 8  Victory and Defeat
 expand sectionEpilogue  Modern Ritual at Bent's Old Fort

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionIndex
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