A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and CanadaThis is an account of what happened to the thousands of people who left the Scottish Highlands to make a new life in the United States and Canada. The book evaluates the impact of people from the Highlands on the New World. It is the story of how soldiers, explorers, fur traders, lumberjacks, guerilla fighters, railway builders, and pioneer settlers from the northern part of Scotland contributed to the United States and Canada. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
TWO What Then is the American This New Man? | 23 |
THREE A Hardy and Intrepid Race of Men | 49 |
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