Introduction --

The Spanish era 1519-1821 ; The golden age of discovery and conquest --

The settlement of New Mexico --

The settlement of Texas --

The settlement of Arizona --

Consolidation, retrenchment, and expansion --

The settlement of California --

The interior provinces --

Life in the Spanish provinces --

The last years of the Spanish Southwest --

The Spanish heritage --

The Mexican era 1821-1848 ; The arrival of the Anglo-Americans --

The colonization of Texas, the revolution, and the republic --

The Mexican war --

The consolidation of American control 1848-1863 --

The compromise of 1850 --

The controversial boundary survey and the Gadsden Purchase --

The gold rush --

Explorers, surveyors, and filibusters --

Transportation --

Civil War in the Southwest --

Internal development 1863-1912 --

The Indian Wars --

The coming of the railroads --

The bonanza years of mining --

Ranching and farming --

Politicos in the statehouse --

The twentieth century 1912-1967 --

Oil : the last boom --

World War I --

Agriculture and irrigation --

World War II --

The postwar years --

Politics in the twentieth century --

Social and cultural currents in the Southwest --

The Southwest in perspective.