Article explores the success and failure of two American Indian institutions of higher education; Bacone College and Oklahoma Presbyterian College. While Bacone still serves students in the twenty-first century, Oklahoma Presbyterian closed in the 1960s. This article identifies the reasons why Bacone survived, and Oklahoma Presbyterian College did not.

Article explores the evolution of Armstrong Academy, a boarding school for American Indian boys, from its opening in 1845 to its untimely closing in 1920.

This article continues Von Creel's study of the administration of justice in Indian Territory courts and expands upon the application of capital punishment. Von Creel details the cases of nine individuals who were convicted of capital crimes but who escaped hanging. Their stories involve the complicated legal processes of appeal, application for presidential clemency, commutation of sentence, and post-verdict motions.

Article provides a biographical tribute to Kate Galt Zaneis, the first woman in the country as well as the state of Oklahoma to become president of a state institution of higher learning. James C. Milligan and L. David Norris describe her career as well as the many changes she instituted at Southeastern State Teachers College in Durant during the 1930s.

Article details the findings of an archeological dig at Fort Washita conducted in 1971. The article lists what was found at the site and how the scientists procured them.

This section includes the minutes of the third quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on November 12, 1953.

Article provides details surrounding the lynching of John Lee, a black man who attacked and killed a woman alone with her children near Durant, Oklahoma in 1911. Lowell Blaisdell describes the history of racial violence in the area, including other lynching incidents, and the circulation of rumors and paranoia that went hand-in-hand with the attitudes of the era.