Series: Daniel Boone papers: 5 C
Scope and Content Note: Draper correspondence and notes on early western explorations from the sixteenth to late eighteenth centuries, with emphasis on the journeys of Dr. Thomas Walker and the men known as the Long Hunters. Of particular note are extracts from Walker's journal for the years 1750 and 1775 annotated by Draper and a long letter by Zachary Taylor, dated October 30, 1848, giving biographical information about his father and uncle, Richard and Hancock Taylor, and Abraham Hempingstall, with an account of their travels in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys in 1769 and of Richard Taylor's later settlement in Kentucky. Found in other letters are biographical or genealogical references to other Kentucky pioneers: James Dysart; John Finley (Findlay); Casper Mansco; William Miller (Millar); Thomas Mitchell; Ambrose Powell; Henry, Moses, Thomas, and William Skaggs; John Todd; Elisha and William Walden; and James Wood.