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An Antietam veteran's Montana journey : the lost memoir of James Howard Lowell

Title
An Antietam veteran's Montana journey : the lost memoir of James Howard Lowell / edited by Katharine Seaton Squires ; forewords by Ken Robison and Castle McLaughlin, PhD.
Author
Lowell, James Howard
Publication
Charleston, S.C. : History Press, 2018.

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Additional Authors
  • Squires, Katharine Seaton
  • Robinson, Ken
  • McLaughlin, Castle
Description
251 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 23 cm
Summary
"In this recently unearthed memoir, Civil War veteran James Howard Lowell offers a firsthand account of his brutal journey west on a wagon train attacked by Indian Dog Soldiers. The Boston Yank staggers snow blind through a Laramie Plains blizzard to reach Salt Lake City, where he meets Brigham Young. In Montana, he joins an old forty-niner to work a mining claim, practices "tomahawk jurisprudence" in Fort Benton and builds a mackinaw to head downriver through Deadman Rapids to trade with the Crow and Gros Ventre tribes. Lowell's great-great-granddaughter edits this tale populated with colorful characters, narrow escapes and important historical events, such as the Baker Massacre. It features Lowell's letters to his sweetheart and Civil War correspondence"--Amazon.com.
Alternative Title
Montana journey
Subject
  • Lowell, James Howard
  • American Civil War (1861-1865)
  • Antietam, Battle of (Maryland : 1862)
  • 1861-1865
  • Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
  • Civil war
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Maryland
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Personal correspondence.
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biography.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
Call Number
JFE 18-9071
ISBN
  • 146713967X
  • 9781467139670
LCCN
2018963088
OCLC
1024247137
Author
Lowell, James Howard, author.
Title
An Antietam veteran's Montana journey : the lost memoir of James Howard Lowell / edited by Katharine Seaton Squires ; forewords by Ken Robison and Castle McLaughlin, PhD.
Imprint
Charleston, S.C. : History Press, 2018.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
Chronological Term
1861-1865
Added Author
Squires, Katharine Seaton, editor.
Robinson, Ken, writer of foreword.
McLaughlin, Castle, writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-9071
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