Introduction / Lawrence E. Babits
Clash of empires / R. Scott Stephenson
Forts on the frontier: adapting European military engineering to North America / James L. Hart
Fort Prince George, South Carolina / Marshall W. Williams
Fort Loudoun, Tennessee : defensive features and artifactual remains / Carl Kuttruff
Fort dobbs, North Carolina: how documents and artifacts led to rebuilding the fort / Lawrence E. Babits
Fort Loudoun, Virginia: a French and Indian War period fortification constructed by George Washington / Robert L. Jolley
The Second Fort Vause: a crucial French and Indian War fort in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia / Kim A. McBride
"To preserve the forts, and the families gathered into them": archaeology of Edwards's Fort, Capon Bridge, West Virginia / W. Stephen McBride
Fort Loudoun: a provincial fort on the mid-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier / Stephen G. Warfel
Style wars in the wilderness: the colonial forts at Crown Point / Charles L. Fisher and Paul R. Huey
Fort Frontenac, Kingston, Ontario, Canada / Susan M. Bazely
Michilimackinac, a civilian fort / Lynn L. M. Evans
War and the colonial frontier: Fort de Chartres in the Illinois country / David J. Keene
Conclusion / Lawrence E. Babits.