"Coronado National Memorial : A History of the Huachuca Mountains and Montezuma Canyon is about a place that is tied to the history, heritage, and patrimony of Spain, Mexico, and the United States as well as to regional Native American tribes. As such, thematic supplements include Spanish colonial contact, settlement, missions, Mexican Territorial Period land grants, and a history of Coronado National Memorial. Additionally, the history of Montezuma Canyon is part of the historical process that shaped the region and two countries"--Provided by publisher.

Introduction: The many faces of Montezuma Canyon -- Montezuma Canyon, Coronado and historians : an historiographical conundrum -- After Coronado : Spanish and Mexican mining interests in the Huachucas -- The San Rafael del Valle and the San Pedro Land Grants -- The crown of Montezuma Canyon : a history of the State of Texas Mines -- Prospectors, speculators and miners : the origins, decline, and fateful end of the Doredor Mine Group -- Mexican rancheros, homesteaders and dude ranchers -- Mexico, the United States and the establishment of Coronado National Memorial, 1939 to 1952 -- Land acquisition, mining interests and Montezuma Canyon -- Mines, boundary adjustments, land acquisition and the sixty-foot wide strip -- Afterword.