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 documents are selected from volumes 4 through 13 of the Boone Papers. Extracts from these ten volumes include more than eighty first-hand accounts. Draper’s correspondents relate their stories of Indian captives, raids on isolated cabins, and prolonged sieges on the Kentucky forts. The mythology of Boone is somewhat balanced by Draper’s correspondents, many of whom knew Boone personally. The purpose of this work is not to make a complete transcription. Selected letters and interviews have been extracted/transcribed to make available some of the most valuable accounts of a vital era in our history and to make more widely available Lyman Draper’s tribute to Daniel Boone and those he called the “warrior-pioneers.” These same pioneers, hearing of Boone’s adventures, became adventurers and defenders of the frontier as well — some as far west as California. Facsimile reprints of original documents and an appendix that provides a list of other items discovered in the reading of the microfilm add to the value of this work. An index to Draper’s original volumes presents full-names, places and subjects with the original volume and page number.

Warrior-Pioneers: Extracts from the Boone Papers, Volumes 4C-13C of the Draper Manuscripts

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Pioneer Voices II: Interviews with Early Settlers of Bourbon County, Kentucky

ENOCH, HARRY

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Fort Boonesborough is one of Kentucky's most historic places and, although seldom mentioned in popular accounts, women were there from the very beginning. This work includes 195 women whose presence at the fort can be reasonably documented by historical evidence. The time period was limited to the years between 1775, when the fort was established, and 1784, when the threat of Indian attack at Boonesborough had subsided and the fort's stockade walls had been taken down. The names of the female children these pioneer women brought to the fort are also included, as they shared the risks and hardships of frontier life. The work includes a Historical Sketch describing the women's experiences at the fort and a Biographical Section that gives a brief personal history of each woman. 174 pp., illus., indexed, paper.

Women at Fort Boonesborough, 1775-1784

Enoch, Harry G.

Few places have a more storied past than Boonesborough, the Kentucky frontier outpost of the Transylvania Company. Boonesborough was a major focal point for the host of pioneers migrating West in 1775 and thereafter. This tiny settlement on the banks of Kentucky River would weather multiple Indian attacks, the capture and rescue of the daughters of Daniel Boone and Richard Callaway, the capture and captivity of Boone’s salt makers, and a protracted siege of the fort by more the 400 Shawnee Indians. This work tells the story of Boonesborough’s first year from journals, letters and other documents of 1775.

Settling Boonesborough: Journals, Letters and Other Documents, 1775

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