Series: 24 S (Volume 24)
Scope and Content Note: Interview notes, 1868, taken in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Topics range widely and include: events in the lives of Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, the Musick family, and the Wetzel family; early American settlement in Missouri and Missouri's participation in the War of 1812; Indian settlement and traders at Milwaukee about 1800 to 1804, including Antoine Le Clair Sr. and family, Joseph Laframboise, and Joseph La Croix; Indian leaders in Illinois including Gomo and his brother Senachewin (Se-na-ge-woin, Se-nah-ge-woin) and Billy Caldwell of the Potawatomi, and Black Hawk and Keokuk (Ke-o-kuck) of the Sauk and Fox; and Tecumseh and the battle of Frenchtown (1813). Also found are copies of entries from a Kenton family register and portions of a ballad by John Matthews on the defeat of Allen Ramsay's scouting party by the Winnebago in Missouri in July 1813.