An Antietam Veteran's Montana Journey

The Lost Memoir of James Howard Lowell

Katharine Seaton Squires

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781439664704
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword, by Castle McLaughlin, PhD
• Foreword, by Ken Robison
• Editor’s Note
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I. The Memoir
• II. Correspondence
• Appendix
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• About the Editor