Series: Daniel Boone papers: 30 C
Scope and Content Note: Three interviews about Boone's life and personality recorded by Draper in northern Illinois (1866-1867) and Wisconsin (1871), accompanied by a very few notes and clippings about members of the Boone family. Although many aspects of Boone's career are mentioned, the bulk of the information in the interviews pertains to Boone and his contemporaries in Missouri. Persons on whom there are substantial references include Joab Barton; James Bridges; Benjamin and Sarshall Cooper; James Craig; Derry, one of Boone's favorite Negroes; Doza, a boat pilot for early Missouri and Illinois fur traders; Duquoin, chief of the Kaskaskia Indians; John Kenton, son of Simon; Alexander Logan; James Mackey (Mackay, Makay); John Morrison and his sons James and Jesse (of Missouri); William Morrison (of Kaskaskia, Illinois); Anthony Palmer; Indian Philips; and Jean Baptiste Point au Sable. Clippings include a wood engraving of Isaiah Boone (b. 1832), son of Thomas (1785-1855), holding one of Daniel Boone's rifles.