This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on July 26, 1973. Included is a list of gifts received by the organization as well as a list of new annual, life, and honorary members.

Notes and Documents column including an announcement that Will Roger's papers will be made public, a poem about going home after plagues and war, an announcement from the Secretary of the Interior that proclaims all American Indians must cut their hair, an a news story on a flood that devastated Eufaula.

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses Paula McSpadden Love, the curator of the Will Rogers memorial and a life-long educator.

Article chronicles the activism done by Edward P. McCabe, the first African-American person elected to a public office outside of the South, as he encouraged more African-American people to settle within Oklahoma Territory. The article tells his story through newspaper articles published at the time.

Article attempts to chronicle how Sam Houston acquired the Grand Saline, land originally held by Auguste Pierre Chouteau within Arkansas Territory.

Article details the economic struggles faced by the Creek Nation in the decade immediately following the Civil War.

Article chronicles the planning and execution of the Indian Territory Expedition, a military undertaking by the federal government to stop the frequent attacks by Plains Indians on railroad surveyors, whiskey peddlers, buffalo hunters, and pioneers.

Article details the amenities and atmosphere found within a pioneer's kitchen.

Article chronicles how the United States government opened the land called Cherokee Strip for settlement and the ensuing struggles of the settlers and the American Indians who lived there.

Article narrates the attack on Colonel Warner Lewis of the Confederate army as he and his men marched to New Mexico and Arizona by American Indians that left all of his men dead except for himself and one solider.

Article chronicles the many influences that inspired Walter S. Campbell in his writing. Campbell used the pseudonym Stanley Vestal for his writings on the American West.

For the Record section including a list of publications of The Oklahoma Historical Society that are for sale and their prices.

Notes and Documents column including editor's notes on the minutes schedules, a narrative on the historical significance of persimmons in the country, the first verse of a Civil War poem, a note on the opening of the Jim Thorpe Home, a note on the anniversary of the Battle of Prairie Grove, and a note on the placement of Oklahoma's state capital.

Article details the life of Ado Hunnius, a German man who served in the New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War as a map maker and solider, through his journal entries.

Article chronicles how the Cornwall Mission School was shut down due to rumors of poor management spurred by an interracial marriage between one of the school's agent's daughters and an alumni of Cherokee origin.

Article explains the limitation of Southern progressivism through the lens of the discussion of women's suffrage during Constitutional Conventions and meetings of the legislature.

Article explains how European travelers felt about the American Indian's removal from their ancestral lands to west of the Mississippi River through journal entries and letters.

Article contains translations of The Choctaw and Chickasaw Observer, a newspaper handwritten and published in the Choctaw Nation during the Civil War.

Article chronicles the history of the building that hosted Seminary Hall, the first co-educational public seminary school in the world, located on the Northeastern State College campus.

Article narrates President Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Oklahoma as he visits a group of soldiers called the "Rough Riders."

Notes and Documents column including an announcement of the distribution of the annual index, a note on the 80th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Oklahoma Historical Society, a note on the society processing rare photographs from Alice Robertson, an announcement of the destruction of Chimney Rock, memorials for deceased society members, a note on the history of The Payne County Democrat and the press in Oklahoma, a note on the historical marker from 1886, and an excerpt from "Fate of the Indian.

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Morton Rector Harrison, a World War I veteran active in community service, and Edward Everett Dale, a pioneer educator and former Harvard instructor.

This section includes the minutes of the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society and the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on April 26, 1973. Included is a response from Florence O. Wilson on becoming an honorary member of the society, a list of gifts received by the organization, and a list of new annual and life members.

Article chronicles the media storm of misinformation that followed the shooting of three college student in Ardmore, Oklahoma. The students were parked on the side of the road when two plain clothes policemen pulled over to apprehend them for public urinating. The ensuing scuffle left two of the students dead, one of which was related to Pascual Ortis Rubio, the president of the Republic of Mexico.