A Guide to the Draper Manuscripts

Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0870202154 
ISBN 13
9780870202155 
Category
History--U.S.  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1983 
Pages
492 
Subject
Manuscripts, American -- Wisconsin -- Madison -- Catalogs. 
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century the Wisconsin Historical Society's first director, Lyman C. Draper, gathered outstanding materials such as the Daniel Boone papers, which include Draper's interviews with Boone's son, and the papers of Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. These two collections alone are of vast significance to frontier history before 1830, but the full collection comprises nearly five hundred volumes of records, including military and government records, interviews, Draper's own research notes, and rare personal letters. For scholars, genealogists, and local historians, the Draper papers offer a wealth of information on the social, economic, and cultural conditions experienced by our frontier forebears. The 180-page index lists thousands of names and is an indispensable guide for all who wish to use the collection, which is available in libraries across the country on microfilm. - from Amazon 
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