Contents
Maps and Diagrams 000
Preface 000
Introduction: An Argument 000
Part I
1. Initial and Sustained Contacts in the Gulf South: From
Violence to Diplomacy 000
2. Forging Diplomatic Paths: Native Participants 000
3. Forging Diplomatic Paths: Emergence of a Culture of
Diplomacy 000
Part II
4. The Nogales Dispute, 17911792: Some Immediate
Antecedents 000
5. Diplomacy of the Nogales Dispute, 17911792 000
6. Paths to Boukfouka and the Tombigbee, 17921793 000
7. Tangled and Twisted Paths to Nogales 000
8. The Nogales Assembly, 1793 000
9. Paths--river and other--from Nogales to San Fernando de las
Barrancas 000
Part III. Documents
1. Diary of Gayoso's Journey to Nogales, March 24April 23,
1791 000
2. Franchimastabé and Taboca to Gayoso, May 14, 1791 000
3. Gayoso's Reply to Franchimastabé and Taboca, May 28, 1791
000
4. Diary of Stephen Minor's First Mission to the Choctaws, May
30June 13, 1791 000
5. Gayoso on Minor's Mission to the Choctaws, July 1, 1791 000
6. Gayoso to Franchimatabé, March 12, 1792 000
7. Diary of Stephen Minor's Second Mission to the Choctaws, March
13April 3, 1792 000
8. Franchimastabé to Gayoso, March 28, 1792 000
9. Gayoso to Tascahetuca [Taskietoka], March 28, 1792 000
10. Gayoso's Account of the Natchez Congress, May 1792 000
11. Treaty of Natchez, May 14, 1792 000
12. Gayoso's Account of the Visit of Cherokee Chiefs to Natchez,
December 1792January 1793 000
13. Treaty of Boukfouka, May 1793 000
14. Gayoso's Account of the Nogales Congress, October 1793 000
15. Treaty of Nogales, October 28, 1793 000
16. Cession of the Barrancas de Margot or Chickasaw Bluffs to the
Spanish Nation, June 1795 000
17. Gayoso's Account of a Meeting with the Chickasaw King at San
Fernando de las Barrancas, August 1795 000
Abbreviations 000
Notes to Chapters 000
Notes to Documents 000
Essay on Sources 000
Index 000