Lyman Copeland Draper's collection focuses on what he called the "Trans-Allegheny West" during the Revolutionary War years. This area included the western Carolinas and Virginia, the entire Ohio River Valley, and parts of the Mississippi River Valley. Letters and interviews in his collection date from the 1840s to 1891, with an emphasis on the western frontier (Kentucky).
In this work, letters, interviews, military correspondence and other...
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