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| Foreword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition | |
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| Foreword to the First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New Spain's Far Northern Frontier | |
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| Editor's Introduction | |
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| Sources | |
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| Church and State - Luis de Velasco, 1595 | |
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| Frontier Military - Antonio Martinez, 1817 | |
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| "Contributions are small" - Francisco Martinez de Baeza, 1639 | |
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| A Communal Land Grant - Lorenzo Marquis - Antonio Jose Ortiz, 1794 | |
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| Mestizaje - First Los Angeles Census, 1781 | |
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| "Most hardy subjects" - Zebulon M. Pike, 1807; Miguel Ramos de Arizpe, 18182 | |
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| "There were no paupers" - Jose Agustin de Escudero, 1827 | |
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| "Backward" New Mexico - Pedro Bautista Pino, 1812 | |
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| The "wretched village" of San Antonio - Juan Agustin Morfi, 1778 | |
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| The Romantic Frontier - Guadalupe Vallejo, 1890; George Wharton James, 1914 | |
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| Yankee Infiltration and the Hardening of Stereotypes | |
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| Editor's Introduction | |
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| Sources | |
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| "Calculating the profit" - Carlos Dehault Delassus, 1804 | |
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| "Indications are very dangerous" - Joaquin del Real Alencaster, 1807 | |
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| California "would fall without an effort" - William Shaler, 1808 | |
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| The Black Legend - William Robertson, 1777 | |
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| "Degenerate inhabitants of New Mexico" - Rufus B. Sage, 1846 | |
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| "Blood ... as ditch water" - Walter Prescott Webb, 1931 & 1935 | |
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| "An ill opinion of the Mexicans" - Jose Maria Sanchez, 1828 | |
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| "Lazy people of vicious character" - Jose Maria Sanchez, 1828 | |
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| "Industrious, honest North American settlers" - Ayuntamiento of San Antonio, 1832 | |
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| "Waiting the result" - Thomas O. Larkin, 1846 | |
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| Cultures Collide | |
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| Editor's Introduction | |
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| Sources | |
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| "I am warning you" - Manuel Mier y Teran, 1828 & 1829 | |
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| "The two people cannot mingle together" - Committee of Vigilance & Public Safety, San Augustin, 1835 | |
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| "Their decision irrevocably sealed their fate" - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, 1837 | |
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| "Texians! Render every possible assistance" - Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, 1836 | |
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| "War ... our final salvation" - Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, 1837 | |
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| "The sacrificial goat" - Pio Pico, 1846-48 | |
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| "We would have made some kind of resistance" - 105 New Mexicans, 1846 | |
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| "Keep yourselves quiet" - Donaciano Vigil, 1847 | |
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| Reactions to Defeat - Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, 1846; Juan Bautista Alvarado, 1876; Angustias de la Guerra Ord, 1878 | |
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| "A duty before God" - William P. Rogers, 1846; Robert F. Stockton, 1847 | |
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| "The Government of a white race" - John C. Calhoun, 1848 | |
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| All the Rights of Citizens | |
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| Editor's Introduction | |
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| Sources | |
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| "Their property, their persons, their religion" - Stephen Watts Kearny, 1846 | |
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| "All the rights of citizens" - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848 | |
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| "For me the placers were finished" - Antonio F. Coronel, 1849 | |
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| "Hung as suspects" - El Clamor Publico, 1857 | |
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| "A foreigner in my native land" - Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, 1858 | |
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| "No justice for the Mexicans in Texas" - Comision Pesquisadora, 1873 | |
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| "A set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans" - A Texas Ranger, 1875 | |
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| "Parceled out to Mexicans" - Tucson Citizen, 1904 | |
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| "Compelled to sell, little by little" - Antonio Maria Pico, et al., 1859 | |
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| "A denial of justice" - Public Land Commission, 1880 | |
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| Accommodation, Assimilation, and Resistance | |
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| Editor's Introduction | |
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| Sources | |
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| "Revenge took possession of me" - Tiburcio Vasquez, 1874; Joaquin Murrieta, 1854 | |
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| "To defend ourselves" - Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, 1859 | |
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| Las Gorras Blancas - Nuestra Plataforma, 1890; Felix Martinez, 1890 | |
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| "In sympathy" - N. A. Jennings, c. 1875 | |
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| "Volunteers, both Mexicans and Americans" - Juan I. Tellez, 1926 | |
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| "Now or never" - La Voz del Pueblo, 1906; Constitution of New Mexico, 1912 | |
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| "Por la raza y para la raza" - Congreso Mexicanista, 1911 | |
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| A Sample from the Press - El Labrador, 1904 | |
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| Workers from Mexico: Three Views - Mexican: Diario del Hogar, 1910; Anglo American: Samuel Bryan, 1912; Mexican American: El Labrador, 1904 | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Afterword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| Racial mixture in New Spain | |
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| Forced labor in New Spain | |
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| Stereotyped sinister Mexicans | |
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| Adobe building | |
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| Pio Pico | |
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| Jose Antonio Navarro | |
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| "Dawn at the Alamo" | |
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| Angustias de la Guerra Ord | |
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| Luis de la Rosa | |
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| Antonio F. Coronel and his wife Mariana | |
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| "The Battle of San Pascual" | |
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| Juan Nepomuceno Seguin | |
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| Francisco P. Ramirez | |
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| Manuel Dominguez | |
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| Los Angeles, 1886 | |
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| Santa Fe, c. 1880 | |
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| Tiburcio Vasquez | |
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| Juan Nepomuceno Cortina | |
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| Ignacio Calvillo | |
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| Miguel Antonio Otero | |