Draper Manuscript Collection: Difference between revisions

{{TOC right}} '''Coverage.''' This collection also known as the '''Draper manuscripts''', and as the '''Draper Collection''', consists of nearly 500 volumes of manuscripts, papers, and books collected by Lyman Copeland Draper about the history of the trans-Allegheny West in the United States, a region including the western areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, all the Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the 1740s to 1830. This includes New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin. <br><br>  

'''Arrangement.''' The collection is divided into 50 sets of manuscripts and documents

called '''''series'''''. Some series are titled by geographic area, some by the names of prominent frontier leaders, and some by topic. For further details about the 50 series titles and arrangement '''''see also:'''''