Don't overlook the career of Daniel Drew, sometime proprietor of the Bull's
Head Tavern, the famed rendezvous for drovers bringing herds into New York
City.  Bouck White's _The Book of Daniel Drew_ (1910) is the place to begin.

Edwin G. Burrows
Brooklyn College


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> Subject: Drovers in the 1840s
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> To all:
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>     I am looking to develop some research on the trade of driving
> animals to
> market in Central New York in the 1840s.  This is part of an effort to
> reinterpret Bump Tavern at The Farmers' Museum a drovers' and travellers'
> tavern originally from Windham, New York in the Catskills.  I would very
> much appreciate it if anyone could pass on any information as to the
> whereabouts of primary sources like account books and diaries or good
> secondary sources that relate to droving and innkeeping in this
> region from
> the mid-19th century.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Garet Livermore
> Director of Education
> New York State Historical Association
> The Farmers' Museum
> PO Box 800
> Cooperstown, NY 13326
> 607-547-1490