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Language
English
Abstract
The interviews, correspondence, notes and reports of a Wisconsin based, New York born antiquarian and early researcher of
frontier history. Lyman C. Draper's manuscripts were willed to the Wisconsin State Historical Society where he had been its
corresponding secretary and instrumental in its development. Microfilm was produced by the society of his papers and made
available for purchase to libraries because of their significance for studying the Eastern frontier and its pioneers. Draper
had originally planned to publish on the basis of these manuscripts a series of books on frontier history and biographies
of famous pioneers. Only one was published, King's Mountain and Its Heroes. Draper, in his writings, generally reflected biases
common to white male Americans of the nineteenth century but he collected many documents and interviewed women, Native Americans,
and African Americans connected with the frontier and their descendents. Indeed he had collected enough material that he had
decided to write biographies of chiefs: Tecumseh and Joseph Brant. Other materials for biographies are of white frontier notables
such as Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Lewis Wetzel, Simon Kenton, and Samuel Brady. His papers are also organized regionally
with holdings encompassing an area bordered by the western parts of Virginia and the Carolinas and portions of Georgia and
Alabama, encompassing the entire Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the era of frontier conflicts
in the 1740's and 1750's to the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Lyman C. Draper, Antiquarian, Manuscripts, A&M 3045, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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