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  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue; 1. Myth and Reality in the Upper Pimeria; When, Where, and How It Began; Hispanic Place Names in Arizona ; Architectural Influences ; Ranching, Farming, and Mining ; Politics in the Pimeria Alta ; Women in the Pimeria Alta ; Contacts with New Mexico and California ; Religion in the Pimeria Alta
  • 2. Early Exploration and Settlement ; Jesuit Entries from the South ; Bolas de Plata ; Indian Troubles ; The Hectic Decade of the 1760s ; The Expulsion of the Jesuits ; The Founding of Tucson
  • 3. The Provincias Internas of New Spain ; The Yuma Disaster
  • A New Indian Policy for the Frontier Life Settles Down ; New Mission Construction ; Uneasiness Prevails at Century's End
  • 4. The Last Years of Spanish Rule ; More Early Land Grants ; Arizona and the Independence Movement ; Changes in Command
  • 5. The Sonoran Frontier After Independence ; Arizona Under Mexican Rule ; Anglo-Americans in Arizona ; The Arizona Land Grants ; Politics in the State of Occidence ; The Tucson Fields
  • 6. Sonora Becomes a Separate State ; Sonora's 1831 Census ; Appeals for a Major Offensive ; Problems with the Papagos
  • 7. Power Struggles Leave the Frontier Helpless; A Peace Treaty for the Pinals Politics and Papagos ; The Frontier Situation Grows More Desperate; Abandonment of the Land Grants
  • 8. Sonoran Politics and Indian Affairs ; New Difficulties in the Papagueria ; The Urrea-Gandara Feud Heats Up ; Controlling the Indians ; Comaduran in the Eye of the Whirlwind ; The Condition of the Missions in 1843 ; A New Campaign Against the Apaches
  • 9. Urrea Wins in Sonora, Gandara in Mexico City; Events on the Frontier ; Colonel Elias Invades Chihuahua ; Urrea Back in Power
  • 10. No Matter How Bad, Things Can Always Get Worse ; Comaduran on the March Again ; Political Turmoil Continues War!
  • 11. The War Years, 1847-1848 ; Gandara Becomes Sonora's Constitutional Governor ; Massacre in the Sierra de las Mestenas ; Graham's Trek Through Pimeria Alta ; The Sonoran Census of 1848 ; Teodoro Ramirez, First Citizen of Tucson ; The Tribulations of Captain Comaduran
  • 12. The Yanqui Forty-Niners ; Gandara and Elias Disagree ; Tucson's Isolation Breaks Down ; Yankee Arrogance Causes Problems ; Apache Attacks Continue
  • 13. California Sours for Sonorans ; The Foreign Miners' Act ; The Colorado Crossing ; Tucson Under Attack ; Cholera Provides a New Threat ; Tubac Becomes a Military Colony Determining the Boundary
  • 14. The End of Mexican Rule ; The Boundary Commission Visits Tucson ; The French Threaten ; More Squabbles Over Land ; The Gadsden Purchase Treaty ; Preparing for the Change of Command ; Departure of the Mexican Troops
  • 15. Epilogue; Population and Land ; The Fate of the Haciendas ; Familiar Faces in New Surroundings ; Apaches! ; The Acculturation Process ; Appendix A. The Elias Family of Arizona and Sonora: A Genealogical Essay ; Descendancy of Francisco Elias Gonzalez de Zayas ; Descendancy of Fernando Elias Gonzalez.