A Guide to the Draper Manuscripts

"Though more than a century has passed since the Wisconsin Historical Society's first director, Lyman C. Draper, browsed among his cherished manuscripts and notes on the western frontier, the resources he gathered remain the Society's most noted and widely recognized manuscript collection. Among the outstanding materials that Draper secured for future generations are the Daniel Boone papers, including Draper's own 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 prior to 1830, but the 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 family historians, the Draper papers offer a wealth of information on the social, economic, and cultural conditions our frontier forebears experienced."--BOOK JACKET.