Last of the Lowry gang is killed... Trouble with the Indians...

Item # 691796

February 24, 1874

NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 24, 1874

* North Carolina resistance
* Lowry War - Pembroke
* Steve Lowry killed

The front page has a brief yet notable article on the Lowry War in North Carolina: "The Last of the Robeson County (N.C.) Outlaws Killed", noting in part: "...Steve Lowery, the last survivor of the notorious band of Robeson County outlaws, was instantly killed...by three citizens...He was tuning his banjo...when three shots were fired...killing him instantly...".
Page 2 has 1 1/2 columns on: "Negroes As Legislators" "The Test of Their Ability In North Carolina".
Page 3 has: "THE INDIAN COUNTRY" "Thieving Liquor Traders Protected by the Indians--Details of the Encounter in Which List. Robinson Was Killed--Story of a Survivor". Also: "Sheridan & Ors at Fort Laramie" "Movement of Troops--Disposition of the Indians" "Ranches Burned...".
Eight pages, four binding holes near the spine do not affect mentioned articles, nice condition.

AI notes: Stephen “Steve” Lowry, a member of the infamous Lowry Gang in Robeson County, North Carolina, was killed in February 1874 during the waning days of the Lowry War, a post–Civil War uprising by the Lumbee and other local residents against Reconstruction-era authorities. Born around 1844, Lowry had participated in years of raids, robberies, and resistance led by his cousin Henry Berry Lowry, who opposed oppressive local officials and economic exploitation of freedmen and Native Americans. By 1874, most gang members had been killed or captured, and Steve Lowry had come out of hiding to attend a social gathering. Bounty hunters, who had been tracking him, attacked him there; two gunmen shot him while a third struck him with an axe, killing him instantly. His body was taken to Lumberton, North Carolina, where the bounty on his head was claimed, marking the effective end of the Lowry Gang’s violent campaign and closing a turbulent chapter in the region’s Reconstruction-era history.