Textual Evidence of the Life of Simon Girty, American Revolutionary Turncoat

"Through a Herculean effort of investigation, collection, and organization, Goodfellow has overcome the significant obstacles inherent in the Draper Manuscripts to provide researchers with a comprehensive and coherent volume containing almost all of the collection’s numerous passages and papers pertaining to Simon Girty. In creating this singularly unique reference source, her task has been neither brief nor easy, yet the results are overwhelmingly successful . . . By maintaining the balance and integrity of the sources, rather than selectively editing the lot to advance a predetermined point of view, Dr. Goodfellow has provided posterity with an invaluable resource from which to draw their own conclusions, a foundational body of evidence that will allow a new generation of Girty scholars to assess, and reassess, the life and legacy of this extraordinary individual. Finally researchers and historians have at their disposal a valuable tool with which to engage the still lingering premise forwarded by W. Marshall Anderson to Lyman Draper more than one hundred and sixty years ago: “If the Devil is entitled to his due, I suppose the same justice should be rendered to his lieutenant." – (from the Foreword) Professor Daniel P. Barr, Robert Morris University

Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Series C. Daniel Boone Papers
Series E. Samuel Brady and Lewis Wetzel Papers
Series Q. Draper’s Historical Miscellanies
Series S. Draper’s Notes
Series U. Frontier Wars Papers
Series W. Josiah Harmar Papers
Series AA. William Irvine Papers
Series CC. Kentucky Papers
Series NN. Pittsburgh and Northwest Virginia Papers
Series YY. Tecumseh Papers
Series ZZ. Virginia Papers
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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