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

By: Squires, Kate

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146713967X
• ISBN13: 9781467139670
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"