Bibliograph

An Antietam Veteran's Montana Journey, the Lost Memoir of James Howard Lowell

Type

Label

An Antietam Veteran's Montana Journey, the Lost Memoir of James Howard Lowell

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An Antietam Veteran's Montana Journey

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Civil War Series

Sub title

the Lost Memoir of James Howard Lowell

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

Target audience

adult

Classification