Incorporation -- The Native Americans -- The arrival of the Europeans -- Mexican Arizona and the Anglo frontier -- Early Anglo settlement and the beginning of the Indian wars -- The military conquest of Indian Arizona -- Extraction -- The freighters and the railroads -- Cattle -- Silver and gold -- Copper -- Oases in the desert -- Water and cotton -- Transformation -- Climate -- The Depression and the New Deal -- World War II and the postwar boom -- The other Arizona -- From the Southwest to the Sunbelt -- Arizona in the twenty-first century -- The political ecology of a desert state -- Reference material -- Bibliographic essays -- Index -- Political map of Arizona -- Physiographic map of Arizona -- Indian reservations in Arizona -- Federal lands in Arizona.