Quote Originally Posted by george7 View Post
A kilt in Utah in 1865... that's pretty far west by 1865 standards.
Besides the aforementioned Caledonian Club of SF, there were quite a few Scottish converts to the LDS faith beginning in the mid-19th century, mostly from the Industrial Central Belt...I have seen a picture, for example, of a Scots Mormon who survived the explosion of the Steamboat Saluda in Missouri River near Lexington, MO dressed in full Highland regalia. I'll have to track that down.

There is also a well-documented story of a Scottish immigrant in 1850s era Texas being buried in a kilt -- the tartan, which was discovered when the grave was opened as part of landscaping work on the cemetery, was subsiquently registered with the STA as the Laing family tartan.

And finally, don't forget the "Scots Piasiano of Los Angeles", Hugo Reid, who dressed his two boys in kilts, circa the 1830s.

T.