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PART ONE
The Indian-Spanish Heritage
Acknowledgements
What's In a Name?
CHAPTER
1 Introduction
The
Melting Pot
CHAPTER 2 The Mexican
Americans
Census Bureau Count 1930-1960
1970 Census Count
Location
CHAPTER 3 Conquest of Mexico
Hernán Cortés
Cortes' Expedition
An Easy Victory
La Malinche
Converting the Indian
Creating a Labor Force
Bartolomé de las Casas
Congregaciones
Encomienda
Repartimiento
CHAPTER 4 Dreamers
and Schemers
Outward Expansion
The Struggle for Power
The Search for Gold
The Silver Rush
CHAPTER 5 Farms and
Forts-The Expanding Settlement
Migration Northward
The Haciendas
New World Aristocrats
Indian Raids-Spanish Garrisons
CHAPTER 6 The Buffer
State
Building the New Colony
Pueblo Resistance
Frontier Hardships
Internal Strife and Oñate's Downfall
Indian Rebellion
The Kingdom Rebuilt
CHAPTER 7 Mission Settlements
Missions in New Mexico
Missions in Arizona and Texas
Missions in California
Junipero Serra
Decline of the Mission System
PART TWO
The Foreign Intrusion
Chapter 8 Threatened
Colonies I: European Competitors
The French Threat
The British Threat
The Russian and Indian Threats
The Spanish Defense System
Los Angeles
Chapter 9 Threatened
Colonies II: The Anglo Invasion
Invasion of New Mexico
Invasion of Texas
Invasion of California
Chapter 10 Frontier
in Conflict
Rebellion in Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Conflict in New Mexico
Chapter 11 The Ultimate
Violence
Manifest Destiny
The Monroe Doctrine
Annexation of Texas
California: Prelude to War
Mexican-American War
Santa Anna
Chapter 12 Heritage of Bitterness
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
"New Citizens"
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo(sidebar)
A Permanent Boundary
Continued Dispute
The Gadsen Treaty
Chapter 13 The New Southwest
Anglo Superiority
California: Forty-Niners
Cattle Barons
A Violent Land
Joaquin Murieta
Texas: The Lawless Society
The New Economy
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