Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes, 1841-1868

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Series: 19 S (Volume 19)
Scope and Content Note: Mainly interview notes, 1863, recorded in Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Although the interviews were centered about the lives of Boone, Brady, Kenton, Tecumseh, and Cornelius Washburn, there are substantial biographical references to numerous others such as George Anderson, the Shawnee Chi-ux-ka (Chi-ux-ko) known as Captain Tommy, George Rogers Clark, Kinzie and Vachel Dickerson, George Edwards, George Fouls, John Gunsaulus (Kingsaula), William Henry Harrison, Jacob and Joseph Holmes, Captain Johnny, Spencer Records, Lewis Wetzel, David Williamson, and Samuel McDole Wilson. One interview contains portions of a ballad on Crawford's defeat in 1782. A detailed index by Draper precedes the notes, and lists many other names and events for which there are brief references.