The Scots in Early Georgia

[mischieftech]

I was at the Scottish Heritage Day out at Darien recently. My pipe major informed me about the general history of the place, but that article is great info. I thoroughly enjoyed being there, watching the reenactment (although after seeing gettysburg reinacted as a child.. few can ever compare.) They even asked the two from my pipe band to perform during the battle. Really added to it.

[KFCarter]

I was at the Scottish Heritage Day out at Darien recently. My pipe major informed me about the general history of the place, but that article is great info. I thoroughly enjoyed being there, watching the reenactment (although after seeing gettysburg reinacted as a child.. few can ever compare.) They even asked the two from my pipe band to perform during the battle. Really added to it.

I've always wanted to check that out, but have had a conflict every time. Maybe next year.
The Gettysburg reenactment must have been amazing.

[macwilkin]

I would recommend the following titles:

Lachlan McGillivray, Indian trader : the shaping of the southern colonial frontier by Edward Cashin. (Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1992)

Lachlan McIntosh and the politics of Revolutionary Georgia by Harvey Jackson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003)

For more general information about Native-American relations with the Scots, Colin Calloway has a delightful new book entitled White People, Indians, and Highlanders Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America:

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/genera...=9780195340129

I highly recommend it; It's one of my favourite books.

Fernec Szasz's Scots in the North American West 1790-1917 from University of Oklahoma also contains some more general discussion of the Scots relationship with Native Americans and their participation in the Fur Trade.

Matt Newsome has a nice article about Sir Alexander Cuming and the Cherokee on his web site:

http://www.albanach.org/cuming.html

Apologies for "assigning reading" (it's what history instructors do after all), but I had to get some sources in besides Wikipedia.

Great thread, btw!

Regards,

Todd

[KFCarter]

I would recommend the following titles:

Lachlan McGillivray, Indian trader : the shaping of the southern colonial frontier by Edward Cashin. (Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1992)

Lachlan McIntosh and the politics of Revolutionary Georgia by Harvey Jackson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003)

For more general information about Native-American relations with the Scots, Colin Calloway has a delightful new book entitled White People, Indians, and Highlanders Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America:

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/genera...=9780195340129

I highly recommend it; It's one of my favourite books.

Fernec Szasz's Scots in the North American West 1790-1917 from University of Oklahoma also contains some more general discussion of the Scots relationship with Native Americans and their participation in the Fur Trade.

Matt Newsome has a nice article about Sir Alexander Cuming and the Cherokee on his web site:

http://www.albanach.org/cuming.html

Apologies for "assigning reading" (it's what history instructors do after all), but I had to get some sources in besides Wikipedia.

Great thread, btw!

Regards,

Todd

Thanks for the reading list!!

I've heard of the "Lachlan Macintosh..." title and the Cuming article on Matt Newsome's site, but not the others. Just tell me there isn't a written assignment involved....

[macwilkin]

Thanks for the reading list!!

I've heard of the "Lachlan Macintosh..." title and the Cuming article on Matt Newsome's site, but not the others. Just tell me there isn't a written assignment involved....

One more:

Anthony W. Parker, Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735-1748 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997).

What would you prefer -- essays or short-answer identification? :mrgreen:

T.

[Coinneach]

Cajunscot, thanks for all the book recommendations. I was worried my box of "books yet to be read" was going to dwindle down to nothing. Not that it ever has before, but it could happen.

[KFCarter]

One more:

Anthony W. Parker, Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735-1748 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997).

What would you prefer -- essays or short-answer identification? :mrgreen:

T.

Essays... on the theory, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance then baffle them with

It's off to Amazon I go!!

btw, would you know a title that relates to the original Darien Expedition to the Isthmus of Panama?

[macwilkin]

Essays... on the theory, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance then baffle them with

It's off to Amazon I go!!

btw, would you know a title that relates to the original Darien Expedition to the Isthmus of Panama?

"Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire" by John Prebble.

T.