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The Homeward Trail.

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Record Number: 
285
Citation: 

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

Annotation: 

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.

First Appeared in 1994 Book?: 
no
Category Tags: 
Literature and creative writing by and/or about the Lumbee
Publication Type: 
Book
Access to Full Text: 

East Carolina University, Joyner Library—Eastern North Carolina Digital Library http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/item.aspx?id=bao

Additional Subjects: 
Henry Berry Lowry