"War of blood and fire" : Puerto Rico
Fountain of eternal youth : La Florida
Amazon women & Californian dreams : Baja California
"Naked and barefoot" : the continent crossed
The seven cities of Cíbola : New Mexico
An Inca's tale, La Florida : the deep south
"Hang all the Lutherans" : the Atlantic Coast
Poetry & conquest : New Mexico
God & government : New Mexico
Po'pay's Pueblo revolt : New Mexico
Manhunt beyond the Rio Grande : Texas
Padre Kino, the Jesuit southwest : Arizona
Love & the Comanche Dawn : Texas
Los Anza & the Apaches : el Gran Norte
Los Gálvez & el Gran Norte : California & Sonora
Junípero Serra, paradise gained : California
Hard road to paradise : Arizona & California
Half a continent is Spanish : Louisiana & Alaska
The governors : Louisiana & New Mexico
"Gálvez, Spanish hero of the American Revolution" : the deep south
Apogee & disaster : Canada & Spain
Mexican independence : New Spain & México
Nemesis, Andrew Jackson : Florida
The Alamo & San Jacinto : Texas
The Mexican-American War : México
Epilogue: Puerto Rico, 1898.
