Dawson, Moses. A Historical Narrative of the Civil and Military Services of Major-general William H. Harrison, and a Vindication of His Character and Conduct as a Statesman, a Citizen, and a Soldier. With a detail of his negotiations and wars with the Indians until the final overthrow of the celebrated chief Tecumseh, and his brother the Prophet (Cincinnati, 1824).
Although frankly partisan this is a source of prime importance for the relations between the Indians and the whites in the Northwest during Harrison's long régime as governor of Indiana Territory.
Dilg, Carl. Papers (MS).
Dilg was a Chicago archaeologist and antiquarian, full of industry and zeal, but with rather erratic methods of work and violently partisan in his advocacy of his theories. After his death his papers were purchased by the Chicago Historical Society. From the point of view of this work they contain a small amount of useful information, difficult to extract from the mass of chaff in which it is embedded.
Dillon, John B. A History of Indiana from Its Earliest Exploration by Europeans to the Close of the Territorial Government in 1816 ... and a General View of the Progress of Public A fairs in Indiana from 1816 to 1856 (Indianapolis, 1859).
An excellent state history by a careful and scholarly worker, whose efforts to preserve the early history of his state were but little appreciated by the generation to which he belonged.
Drake, Benjamin. Life of Tecumseh, and His Brother the Prophet; with a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians (Cincinnati, 1856).
An unpretentious but creditable narrative, based to a considerable extent on source material. There were at least two earlier editions of the work than the one which I have used.
Draper, Lyman C. Collection (MS).
Lyman C. Draper was an indefatigable collector during a long lifetime of materials pertaining to western history. Upon his death his papers became the property of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, of which he had long been the secretary. The documents of chief importance in the preparation of the present work are the Heald Papers. For a fuller account of the Collection see Thwaites, How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest, and Other Essays in Western History (Chicago, 1903), 335 ff.