Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes, 1841-1868

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Series: 26 S (Volume 26)
Scope and Content Note: Draper's manuscripts copies of articles and excerpts, 1812-1816, from the Louisiana Gazette and its successor the Missouri Gazette, files of which he examined in St. Louis in 1868. Nearly all of the selections pertain to the War of 1812 in the West, but particularly to events in Missouri and in the Rock River and Prairie du Chien areas of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Included are articles about Robert Dickson, Matthew Elliott, and the Girty family.