Geology and environment
Pre-Columbian indigenous worlds
Indigenous peoples, Spain, and Mexico
War, exploration, and conquest : 1836-1865
Conflict and early community formation, 1865-1881
The nature of economic development in the Texas-New Mexico borderlands, 1880-1915
The interwar years, 1919-1941
The creation of Guadalupe Mountains National Park
A national park for the twenty-first century
Conclusion : a national park in the Southwest borderlands.