Category: 7. Literature; creative writing by or about Lumbee people

    285. Baily, Waldron. The Homeward Trail. New York: W. J. Watt, 1916. 313 p.

Publication type: Book

Full text available from: East Carolina University, Joyner Library—Eastern North Carolina Digital Library
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This novel, by a North Carolina businessman and outdoorsman (see Dictionary of North Carolina Biography v. 1 (1979) p. 86), is set near the end of the Civil War. The main character is David, a young mountain boy. Henry Berry Lowry is depicted as the fifty-year-old chief of a Croatan settlement 75 miles south of Salem. David falls in love with Lowry’s daughter, princess of the tribe.

Additional subjects: Lowry, Henry Berry

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr. Updated February 6, 2007.

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