Kilts in Westerns

[David Dubh]

I don't recall any westerns. But I did see an old pirate movie with a very young James Earl Jones. In one the scene when he is rescued from the gallows one of the hands in the rigging is in the kilt. Anyone know the movie??

[Finn]

If the colonies were the East, does that make Pittsburgh the West?
"The Unconquered" starring Gary Cooper has Highlanders at the end.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800225784/info

[auld argonian]

I don't recall any westerns. But I did see an old pirate movie with a very young James Earl Jones. In one the scene when he is rescued from the gallows one of the hands in the rigging is in the kilt. Anyone know the movie??

Swashbuckler.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075294/


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[Prester John]

haha Whodathunk!?

[gilmore]

I think there is a balmoral "starring" in the Alamo.

There have been several movies of the Battle of the Alamo. I remember seeing one in which there was a Scot among its defenders. He played a fiddle, and, I believe, wore a kilt as well.

[Jack Daw]

There have been several movies of the Battle of the Alamo. I remember seeing one in which there was a Scot among its defenders. He played a fiddle, and, I believe, wore a kilt as well.

John MacGregor, purported to have played the pipes inside the Alamo during the siege, has only been portrayed in the films once, I think, and that was the 2004 version of the Alamo. You can hear him longer than he is on screen, so don't blink. He is wearing trousers, unfortunately.

[macwilkin]

If the colonies were the East, does that make Pittsburgh the West?
"The Unconquered" starring Gary Cooper has Highlanders at the end.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800225784/info

Frederick Jackson Turner* certainly would agree with you!

*the author of the "Frontier Thesis" of American history.

T.

[macwilkin]

There have been several movies of the Battle of the Alamo. I remember seeing one in which there was a Scot among its defenders. He played a fiddle, and, I believe, wore a kilt as well.

I can't say I've ever seen any hard evidence of John Macgregor wearing a kilt at the Alamo. Macgregor, as Jack Daw mentioned, was reportedly a piper, not a fiddler, but he did supposedly engage David Crockett in a "musical duel" with Crockett on the fiddle...

T.

[Jack Daw]

I can't say I've ever seen any hard evidence of John Macgregor wearing a kilt at the Alamo. Macgregor, as Jack Daw mentioned, was reportedly a piper, not a fiddler, but he did supposedly engage David Crockett in a "musical duel" with Crockett on the fiddle...

T.

This is according to Susanna Dickinson whose credibility is suspect because she contradicted herself in a few newspaper interviews she gave over the years since the battle. Although she married a couple of times, she also sold her body as well as her stories in order to eat. Joe, Colonel Travis' personal slave and fellow survivor, never corroborated this particular tale. But, it could still be true. I'd like it to be.

[macwilkin]

This is according to Susanna Dickinson whose credibility is suspect because she contradicted herself in a few newspaper interviews she gave over the years since the battle. Although she married a couple of times, she also sold her body as well as her stories in order to eat. Joe, Colonel Travis' personal slave and fellow survivor, never corroborated this particular tale. But, it could still be true. I'd like it to be.

Several years ago I contacted Dr. Richard Winders, curator of the Alamo museum and a noted Alamo scholar about John Macgregor. I asked him about this particular story, but he never really questioned Dickinson's accuracy if I remember correctly. I have heard others question it, but of course, I've seen a number of primary sources that contradict themselves over the years.

It's too bad no one thought to ask Louis Rose, as legend says he faced the Highland Regiments with Napoleon's Grand Armee in Spain.

I hope it is true myself...

T.