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Series: Daniel Boone papers: 3 C
: Draper correspondence and notes concerning an assortment of eighteenth-century men, events, and places known to Boone. Major topics discussed are routes over the Blue Ridge Mountains between 1759 and 1773, Thomas Colley and the Colley family, Christopher Gist, and Felix Walker. However, there are numerous incidental references to other sites and tree inscriptions associated with Boone, to Revolutionary battles-Black's Fort (1776), King's Mountain (1780), Guilford Court House (1781), James Estill's defeat (1782), and Blue Licks (1782)-and to members of the Patton, Preston, and Shelby families.
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