To Die Game

EvansÆ 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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Æs brother, brought a final end to the conflict more than two yearÆs 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 EvansÆ 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 LowryÆs land in the book, ôCalvin Lowry was more fortunate than most Indians. He still had 350 acres left from his great-grandfatherÆs estate. Few of them had fared so well,ö (Evans, p. 4
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)

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