Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, by Colin G. Calloway -- Chapter 1. Battles, Courting, and Changing Lives: The Mark Lansburgh Collection, by Joyce M. Szabo -- Chapter 2. Strriving for Recognition: Ledger Drawings and the Construction and Maintenance of Social Status During the Reservation Period, by Michael Paul Jordan -- Chapter 3. Illustrating Encounter: Trade, Travel, and Warfare in Southern Plains Ledger Drawings, 1875-1880, by Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote -- The Mark Lansburgh Collection -- Chapter 4. Unsettling Accounts: The Violent Economies of the Ledger, by Melanie Benson Taylor -- Chapter 5. New Geographies and Surveying Eyes: The Landscapes of Noh-Nah-Wih (Chief Killer), by Mary Peterson Zundo -- Chapter 6. Tracing the Schoolhouse/Big House Legacy: Ledger Art and Prison Work, by Vera B. Palmer -- Chapter 7. Reconstructing History from a Fragmented Past, by Joyce M. Szabo -- Appendix: Ledger Drawings in the Mark Lansburgh Collection -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Plates -- Index This volume presents in full color the Lansburgh collection at Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in its entirety. The drawings are narratives depicting Plains lifeways through Plains eyes. They include landscapes and scenes of battle, hunting, courting, ceremony, incarceration, and travel by foot, horse, train, and boat. Ledger art also served to prompt memories of horse raids and heroic exploits in battle