Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky
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- Synopsis
- from the book's back cover: "They left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The descendants of Scotsman who had settled in the Irish Kingdom of Ulster, they lived for several generations on Irish soil before heading across the Atlantic and the backwoods of America. They founded communities in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the Yadkin River Valley of western North Carolina, eventually crossing the Cumberland Gap and settling the Kentucky frontier. For those Scots-Irish immigrants, life was a test of hardiness, hardship, and endurance, but frontier families also managed time for horseracing, gambling, and socializing - despite their strict Presbyterian ways. They founded churches and helped mold the governments of the new country. Scots and Scotch Irish offers a view of that time and place, along with thousands of names of those early settlers, drawn from church records, military rolls, deeds, court records, and newspapers of the time, all listed alphabetically in a series of appendices by source. A former newspaper reporter and Radio/TV Broadcaster, Larry Hoefling received national journalism awards from Columbia University in NYC and the Scripps-Howard Media Foundation. After spending years as the co-owner of an Irish pub in Tulsa, OK, he currently works as a bookseller and freelance writer in Broken Arrow, OK."
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 156 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780982231326
- Publisher:
- Inlandia Press
- Date of Addition:
- 04/24/13
- Copyrighted By:
- Larry J. Hoefling
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Reference
- Submitted By:
- Richard James
- Proofread By:
- John Falter
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.