An Antietam Veteran's Montana Journey: The Lost Memoir Of James Howard Lowell

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.

• | Author: Katharine Seaton Squires, Katharine Seaton Squires
• | Publisher: History Press Library Editions
• | Publication Date: Jul 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1540235351
• | ISBN-13: 9781540235350