James David Nichols is an assistant professor of history at City University of New York, Queensborough Community College.¿

James David Nichols is an assistant professor of history at City University of New York, Queensborough Community College. 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
“A Country in Which He Could Acquire Liberty”:
The Making of Borderlands Mobility
Chapter 1
“La Frontera del Norte:” Lipan Apaches and the Troubled Rise of Mexico in the Borderlands
Chapter 2
Racial Fault Lines: Immigrant Indians in Mexico
Chapter 3
“Impatient for the Promised Freedom”:
Runaway Slaves in the Age of the Texan Revolution
Chapter 4
“A Great System of Roaming:”
Runaway Debt Peons and the Making of the International Border
Chapter 5
Warriors in Want: Immigrant Tribes and Borderlands Insecurity
Chapter 6
The Line of Liberty:
Runaway Slaves after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Chapter 7
Bordering on the Illicit:
Violence and the Making of the International Line
Chapter 8
“Not Even Seeming Friendship”:
Lipan Apaches and the Promises and Perils of Play-off Diplomacy
Chapter 9
Sacrificed on the Altar of Liberty:
Regionalism and Cooperation in the Age of Vidaurri
Conclusion
Mobility Uninterrupted: The Limits of Liberty
Bibliography
Notes
Index