To Die Game

William McKee Evans' To Die For: The Story of the Lowry Band, Indian Guerillas of Reconstruction recounts the story of Henry Berry Lowry, a Lumbee Indian of North Carolina, responsible for killing a Confederate official, escaping punishment for his crime, and leading an ongoing guerilla war to avoid working as conscripted Confederate labor. The story of Henry Berry, "Henry Bear," Lowry is also a story of the Lumbee Indians in Evans' hands, a people whose story survives the Civil War but succumbs to the encroachment of opportunistic whites. Lowry mysteriously disappeared but Reising (p. 87) maintains "Henry Bear" a symbolic icon of the Lumbee people: "Over a hundred years ago he emerged as their hope and their hero, and today he remains a symbol of their commitments and ideals."

Evans' book provides a number of useful features that make the story of the Lumber River Indians and Henry Lowry come alive. He provides a new foreword to this edition, including along with it his foreword from the original edition. To Die Game also provides a number of illustrations that help add to the mood, tone, and recreation of the settings and environment in which Lowry and his gang operated. Such illustrations include one of the Lumber River Indians lands, one of Lowry, and one with Lowry at the helm of his gang. The author also provides an essay at the end of the work that goes into depth about sources used in its construction. These can be quite useful, such as the explanat

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's brother, brought a final end to the conflict more than two year's after Henry had disappeared under dubious circumstances. William McKee Evans is a noted historian and scholar of the 19th century and American history. His account of Lowry and the Lumbee Indians is sympathetic to the systematic destruction of an indigenous people by the expanding forces of white Europeans. Evans has also written a play based on the life of Lowry. The author is familiar with the port city of Wilmington and its rural environment, something he also explores in another of his books on post-Civil War society in North Carolina, Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear. In To Die Game, we traverse similar terrain through the story of the Lumbee Indians provided by Evans. It is obvious from the outset of To Die For that Evans' familiarity with and fondness for this region and historical period make him sympathetic to the destruction of the indigenous populations who inhabited it before European settlers. As he notes early on about Calvin Lowry's land in the book, "Calvin Lowry was more fortunate than most Indians. He still had 350 acres left from his great-grandfather's estate. Few of them had fared so well," (Evans, p. 4

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