| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : map |
| Series |
Fire ant books |
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Fire ant books.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; 1. Highland Born; 2. The Indian Trade; 3. Charles Town; 4. How to Pack a Horse; 5. Jim-Bird; 6. The Road North; 7. MacDonald's Cowpen; 8. Border Country; 9. Macbeth; 10. Keowee; 11. The Trading House; 12. Otter Queen; 13. Marriage Bed; 14. Verona; 15. Cause of Death; 16. Tugalo; 17. How to Skin a Deer; 18. Uktena; 19. Bloody Mouth; 20. The Devil's Piss; 21. "The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head"; 22. Do Witches Exist?; 23. Just Sing; Notes; Selected References |
| Summary |
In April 1735, twenty-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch whiskey and a set of Shakespeare's plays, arrives in Charles Town, South Carolina, to make his fortune in the New World. The Scottish Highlands, while dear to his heart, were in steep economic decline and hopelessly entangled in dangerous political intrigue. With an uncle in Carolina, the long ocean voyage seemed his best chance for a new start. He soon discovers that the Jacobite politics of Scotland extend to Carolina, and when his mouth gets him in trouble with the Charles Town locals, dimming h |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Scots -- South Carolina -- Fiction
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Fur trade -- Fiction
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Cherokee Indians -- Fiction
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Indian traders -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Cherokee Indians
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Fur trade
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Indian traders
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Scots
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| SUBJECT |
South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
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| Subject |
South Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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History
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Historical fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817382407 |
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0817382402 |
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