Table of Contents:
  • Need for the publication of a comprehensive body of documents relating to the history of Spanish activities within the present limits of the United States
  • Defensive Spanish expansion and the significance of the borderlands
  • The northward movement in new Spain
  • Coronado in perspective
  • Preliminaries to "the Spanish occupation of Texas, 1519-1690"
  • The west coast corridor
  • Spanish resistance to the Carolina traders in western Georgia, 1680-1704
  • French intrusions into New Mexico, 1749-1752
  • The cessio