Summary Information

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes
Inclusive Dates: 1841-1868

Creator:

• Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891

Call Number: Draper Mss S

Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (33 volumes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

See the catalog entry for information on possible additional materials and shelf locations.

Abstract:

Lyman Draper's notes, primarily of interviews (1841-1868), with maps and transcriptions from state and county archives, newspapers, and personal manuscripts, concerning the trans-Appalachian West from about 1750 to 1815, with emphasis on Indian-White conflict, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812.

Note:

This collection and its calendar are also available as a microfilm publication.

Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The Draper Manuscripts consist of fifty collections, sometimes referred to as fifty “series,” under the one overarching title. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) for further information.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper00s

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