Article provides an account by Francena Lavinia Martin Sutton, one of a party of five women and three children who journeyed to Arkansas in the midst of the Civil War. Sutton relates struggles they faced on the road and interactions with Choctaws, who hosted them when they wandered into Indian Territory.

Article describes the beauty and history of Benson Park near Shawnee, Oklahoma. Kenneth R. Bain, Rob Phillips, and Paul D. Travis explore its attraction as a recreational area and the many leisure activities that were possible there until its eventual decline in the face of industry.

Article discusses the creation of the Washington National Monument and the tribute stone placed by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Stockbridge, Creek, and Choctaw delegates at the completion of the memorial.

Article describes the history of one of the best known Red River ferries, Colbert's Ferry, and how it served as a major form of transportation in Oklahoma during the nineteenth century.

Article describes the process of establishing trade and general stores on the Indian Territory frontier, both by white settlers and Cherokees establishing themselves in their new lands. Duncan M. Aldrich discusses the history of business and entrepreneurship in Indian Territory.

Article describes the agricultural programming the United States government promoted for Cheyenne and Arapaho lands in the late nineteenth century. William D. Pennington describes the attempt and ultimate failure of the policies in transforming nomadic groups into agrarian ones.

Article discusses the results of the 1893 land run after the opening of lands on the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation, including the difficulties settlers faced. Michael H. Reggio describes how the poor crop yields, pests, droughts, and lack of transportation impacted the lives of homesteaders.

Notes and Documents column including announcements about the Goodholm house relocation and renovation, the publication of a new journal, Tampa Bay History, by the University of South Florida, and a list of doctors certified in United States Indian Territory retrieved from donated medical certification books.

For the Record section for Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 1979. It includes the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on February 8, 1979. It also includes a gift list for the fourth quarter of 1978-79 and lists of new annual and new life members of the OHS.