Category: 33. The Henry Berry Lowry period

    1085. Triplett, Frank. History, romance and philosophy of great American crimes and criminals .... New York: N. D. Thompson and Co., 1884. Pp. 464-92.

Publication type: Book

Describes the Lowry Band and their deeds with a writing style and bias much like Townsend's (entry 1078). Calls them, for instance, “mongrel outlaws, to whom murder was a pleasant excitement and robbery but a pastime.” Numerous engravings.

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr.

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