An antietam veteran's montana journey : the lost memoir of James Howard Lowell / Kate Squires.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Squires, Kate, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.

Lowell, Robert.

Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862.

Judges--Montana--Biography.

Judges.

Veterans--Montana--Biography.

Veterans.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Biography.

United States.

Montana--Biography.

Montana.

United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 13th (1861-1864). Company A.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2018.

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.

Contents:

Foreword / Castle McLaughlin, PhD

Foreword / Ken Robison

Introduction; Part 1. The memoir. Dull day jottings 1872; A first few words; A change of base; The plains across: Kansas to Colorado, 1865; Denver: clerking at the Planter's House Hotel; Salt Lake City bound, 1866; The Mormon city: Lowell Meets Brigham Young; North to Montana: Wintering in Deer Lodge, W.A.C. Ryan; Opening and operating a placer; Diggings with William Horace Clagett; Hunting and mining with Coggswell the forty-niner; Helena: A chance encounter with Morrow P. Lowry; Confederate Gulch, Diamond City, 1867; Thompson's Gulch: The antelope hunt; Indian Summer in Montana; A new deal; Gold Creek mines: A Boston Yankee in Confederate guise; Two seasons in Thompson's Gulch; A diversion; A queer vacation, solitary winter 1868-69; Fort Benton and environs, 1869, Alexander Culbertson; Tomahawk jurisprudence and vigilante justice; Benton 1869-71, The Kanackers; Stern-wheeled boats; The Baker massacre; Indian medicine; The old Fort Benton; Indian trading and adventure: Senator Thomas C. Power, Courtenay's wood yard;Gordon's stronghold; Ca-but; A feast and a trade: Revenge, murder, and siege at Camp Cooke; Dawson County; Return stateside with the Ashley family; Epilogue. Lowell returns to the states.

Part 2. Correspondence. Introduction to the Correspondence; Letters to Kate Mary Roberts; Exchange with Yellowstone explorer Charles W. Cook; Charles Sumner Ashley 1899 letter to Lowell.

The Civil War correspondence. Lowell's regiment; Post-Antietam letter to brother; Letter to father; Letter to son

Massachusetts Thirteenth circulars. Circular 23; Circular 27; Circular 33; Circular 34

Appendix. Lowell's descendants and the provenance of the journal; Ancestry; Obituaries: James Howard Lowell and Katherine Mary (Roberts) Lowell; Letter from Walter Swan to Samuel Derrick Webster.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439664704

1439664706