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| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Abbreviations Used in Notes | p. xvii |
| In the Beginning. . | p. 3 |
| West from the Islands | p. 11 |
| Florida and the Fountain: Juan Ponce de León 1513-21 | p. 38 |
| Rewards of Discovery: Hernández de Córdoba, 1517 | p. 55 |
| "A Luckless Man": Juan de Grijalva, 1518 | p. 66 |
| Prelude to Conquest: Cortés and Velázquez, 1518-19 | p. 80 |
| Amichel: Alvarez de Pineda, 1519-20 | p. 95 |
| Amazing Mexico | p. 110 |
| New Spain of the Ocean Sea: Conquest and Confrontation, 1519-22 | p. 112 |
| Victoria Garayana: Garay and Pánuco, 1523 | p. 130 |
| Learning the Secrets: Honduras to Nueva Galicia, 1521-35 | p. 147 |
| Grijalva's Captains: Montejo and Avila in Yucatán, 1527-42 | p. 163 |
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| Wasted Conquest: Soto and Moscoso, 1539-43 | p. 208 |
| One Ship and the Cross: The Dominican Martyrs, 1549 and 1554 | p. 234 |
| Genesis at Tampico: The Staging of the Luna Expedition, 1555-59 | p. 251 |
| The Building Rivalry | p. 285 |
| Land of Angels: Menéndez and Escalante, 1565-75 | p. 314 |
| The "Tragic Quadrate": Carvajal and the New Kingdom of León, 1567-90 | p. 333 |
| Tierra Incógnita: The Northern Gulf in the "Forgotten Century" | p. 350 |
| The Gulf's New Explorers: The English, the French, and the Dutch | p. 372 |
| The Bloody Buccaneers: Harbingers of Change, 1669-85 | p. 388 |
| In Sharper Focus . . . the Conclusions | p. 412 |
| Glossary | p. 425 |
| Bibliography | p. 429 |
| Index | p. 441 |
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