Eight notebooks bound together, filled mainly with interviews recorded during a trip in 1846 through the upper Ohio River area in Pennsylvania, western Virginia (West Virginia), Ohio, and Kentucky between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.

Topics embrace a wide range of frontier events and persons, but there are substantial references to the siege of Bryan's Station (1782), the Nickajack campaign (1794), Daniel Boone, Samuel Brady, George Rogers Clark, William Crawford, Simon Girty, Simon Kenton, David Shepherd, John Cleves Spumes (1742-1814), the Wetzels, and Jacob White. A few notes abstracted from public records of Mason County, Kentucky, and a few biographical notations and obituaries copied from pamphlets and from Kentucky and Pennsylvania newspapers of assorted dates, 1796-1840, are also in this volume. The notebooks were individually indexed by Draper, but in many instances the interview records were later placed in other series.