RARE 1909 North Carolina Bandit, Lowrie Robber Band - NC Confederate Outlaws
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The Lowrie History as Acted in Part By Henry Berry Lowrie, the Great North Carolina Bandit with Biographical Sketch of His Associates, Illustrated, Being a Complete History of the Modern Robber Band in the County of Robeson and State of NC, with Appendix. By Mary C. Normet Published: Lumbee Publishing Company, Lumberton, NC, 1909 . 192 pp. Original paperback wraps. Chipping to covers, with some loss (see pic). Text has some chipping as well, and some scattered handwritten notes in the margins on a few pages. Otherwise text is complete. SCARCE. Illustrated with b&w photos. A really nice original copy of this work. Not Ex-Lib. The Lowrie (also spelled Lowry) Gang was a group of outlaw men and women who resisted the Confederate Home Guard. Based in Robeson County, North Carolina, they lived off of the land and the succor of sympathetic neighbors, and defied local and state authorities. Historical Background - George Alfred Townsend's 'The Swamp Outlaws' (1872), describes Lowrie as being of mixed Tuscarora, mulatto, and white blood: "The color of his skin is of a whitish yellow sort, with an admixture of copper-such a skin as, for the nature of its components, is in color indescribable, there being no negro blood in it except that of a far remote generation of mulatto, and the Indian still apparent."During the Civil War, Henry
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