Three notebooks, “G,” “H,” and “I,” bound together and containing interview notes taken in Tennessee: and Virginia, selections from articles by Hugh Paul Taylor and Agatha Towles and from other publications, and copies of personal manuscripts and public archives.

The material concerns white settlement and Indian warfare in Kentucky, Tennessee, and western Virginia and was gathered and copied into these notebooks in the 1841-1843 period. Draper's archival and manuscript sources included court records of Augusta and Frederick counties, Virginia; papers, 1787-1805, of James Robertson found in a Nashville library; letters of William Cocke to Andrew Jackson (1814); correspondence (1813) of James Winchester; and notes by Samuel Kercheval compiled during his preparation of A History of the Valley of Virginia (1833). On the battle of King's Mountain, Draper not only gathered oral accounts, but also copied newspaper descriptions and a song issued during the commemoration of the battle anniversary in 1810 as well as published documents involved in the controversy over the conduct of the battle which erupted between William C. Preston and Isaac Shelby in the 1820s.

Among other persons prominently discussed in this volume are Anthony Bledsoe, Benjamin Cleveland, James Fontaine, Samuel Handley, the Harpe brothers, Robert Johnson, Andrew and John Lewis and the Lewis family of Virginia, Joseph Martin, John Montgomery, William Preston and the Preston family, Griffith Rutherford, John Sevier, Daniel Smith, Adam Stephen, John Stuart, Frederick Stump, and William Whitley. Many other names and subjects are listed in the indexes which Draper prepared for each notebook (pages 179-183, 371-377, 558-565).