A&M 3045Lyman C. Draper, Antiquarian, Manuscripts, ca. 1740-1815 A&M 3045Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-08-30 07:21:02 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard West Virginia and Regional History Center Lyman C. Draper, Antiquarian, Manuscripts Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 A&M 3045 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/2/resources/1228 17.94 Linear Feet Summary: 17 ft. 11 1/4 in. (123 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each) ca. 1740-1815 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. West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/ English . Conditions Governing Access

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 Tennessee Kentucky Ohio River and Valley. Women -- United States -- History Indians of North America African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. Frontier and pioneer life United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 United States -- History -- War of 1812 Revolutionary War. Rivers and river valleys. Wetzel, Lewis, 1763-1808 Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813 Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836 Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 Brady, Samuel. Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807