On Tape One, George Rogers talks about his family, early life and education in San Francisco, first job with the Standard Oil Company, economics education at the University of California Berkeley, working for the Office of Price Administration during World War II, salmon industry in Alaska during the 1940s, fisheries management in Alaska during the 1940s, working under Ernest Gruening, territorial politics, drawing up the state income tax, Bob Bartlett, and Bill Egan.

On Tape Two, George Rogers talks about what Alaska was like in 1945 when he arrived, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Ernest Gruening, territorial finances, Tlingit Indians in state politics, Alaska Native attitudes toward pulp mill employment, type of economic statistics he collected, fluctuations in Alaska's population, Alaska's role in WWII and the Cold War, first woman lawyer and political activist, Mildred Herman, changes in Alaska's economy during the 1960s after statehood, the Alaska Constitutional Convention, injection of federal money into the Alaskan economy after the Good Friday earthquake, planning the state's future after Prudhoe Bay was discovered, Project Chariot, Rampart Dam project, the formation of the Alaska Federation of Natives and land claims.

On Tape Three, George Rogers talks about the political activism of Alaska Natives in the 1960s, the attitude of the BIA toward Alaska Natives, the beginnings of the Alaska State Museum and the Alaska Historical Library, preserving Alaska's heritage, Frank Heintzleman, political in-fighting among federal agencies in Alaska, Rampart Dam project, Ford Foundation Resources for the Future grants, Arctic Institute of North America, Canadian-American relations, his books on the Alaskan economy, his trip to Japan in the 1960s, helping set up the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Arlon Tussing and Vic Fischer.

On Tape Four, George Rogers talks about the commercial development of Alaska Native art, Danny Pierce, Ron Senungetuk, Carl Heinmiller, economic models that have been applied to Alaska, the National Science Foundation's Man in the Arctic program, changes in the Institute of Social and Economic Research, the Minerals Management Service, his service on the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, Tom Morehouse, doing research on limited entry fisheries in British Columbia, serving on the Permanent Fund Corporation board of trustees, and the economic future of Alaska.