Introduction : the southeastern frontier complex
Builders and borrowers : South Carolina's early frontier expansion
Contested empires : the southeastern theaters of Queen Anne's War
Beneath the buffer zone : strains on South Carolina's Indian alliance network
Conspiracy theories : inter-Indian alliances and the outbreak of the Yamasee War
Crises and change : wartime adjustments of the South Carolinians
Distances bridged and widened : wartime adjustments of the southeastern Indians
Inchoate resistance : Indians and Imperialists in the Creek-Cherokee War
Designs on a debatable land : the watershed of South Carolinian expansion
Conclusion : the significance of the Yamasee War.