Lowry is the “robber baron of the period; his stronghold is an island at the center of an almost inaccessible swamp in Robeson County …” He is a “chivalric cut-throat”; his band a “motley crew of Whites and Blacks, runaway slaves … deserted soldiers of both armies, and miscellaneous outlaws of every stamp.”Editorial deploring Lowry’s recent exploits
New York Times 22 July 1871: P. 4 col. 5.
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The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography Supplement
Glenn Ellen Starr Stilling
Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.
