Draper Manuscripts: Kentucky Papers, 1768-1892

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Subseries: 28 CC (Volume 28)
Scope and Content Note: Scrapbook of miscellaneous clippings. Included are dozens of book notices and advertisements, poetry, and articles on historical and current events and persons, such as John Fitch; Robert Wickliffe; Cherokee and Choctaw customs; Indian mounds; the government Indian payment at La Pointe, Wisconsin, in 1849; emigration to Oregon; and exploration of Mammoth Cave. A series of articles deals with the life of Daniel Boone, and several other pages are filled with material (1832) about Lane Seminary in Cincinnati. Shane's table of contents is found at the close of the scrapbook.