1 Introduction -- 2 Setting the stage -- 2.1 John Wesley Powell -- 2.2 Future Hokan-Coahuiltecan families -- 3 From hypothesis to (near) proof -- 3.1 Alfred L. Kroeber and Roland B. Dixon -- 3.2 Edward Sapir -- 4 Further extensions of the stock -- 5 Toward proof and establishment -- 5.1 Through the forties -- 5.2 The Symposium on American Indian Languages and "The Survey" -- 5.3 Recent developments in each family -- 5.4 Cross-family comparisons -- 5.5 Proto-culture and homeland -- 6 The future -- 6.1 The First Conference on Hokan Languages -- 6.2 Taking stock -- 7 Bibliography -- 7.1 Alphabetical listing by author -- 7.2 Index to the bibliography.