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The
Wild West
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 Plaids
and Bandanas: From Scottish Drover to Wild West Cowboy
From droving to driving, reivers to rustlers, heilan kye to
long horns, Plaids and Bandanas explores the link between the
two cattle cultures in music, song and dance, and folklore.
The vast number of Scots who emigrated to North America has
been well documented, whether through forcible eviction during
the clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries, or voluntarily
in the hope of a better life. With them they took their culture,
their language, their music, and their skills. Cattle droving
in Scotland was an established profession from the 16th century,
and many such migrants took cowboy jobs in the American West.
The medium of music paints a vivid picture of their social and
personal lives and the exchange was not all one way. The music
crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic creating strong links between
the old culture and the new. Lonely men in strange surroundings
found comfort in songs that reminded them of home. The author,
himself a musician, researched the roots of the songs and the
routes of the drovers, provding a text which highlights the
links between the Wild West and the no-less-wild Highlands.
 Winning
the Wild West: The Epic Saga of the American Frontier 1800-1899
The American West was once filled with millions of buffalo that
were needlessly slaughtered, the rivers were also mismanaged
and California, the most western state, saw the complete eradication
of native tribes now lost forever. From Lewis and Clark to the
massacre at Wounded Knee, Page Stegner re-creates an engrossing,
gorgeous panorama of trappers, wagon trains, cattle drives,
guns, gold rushes, outlaws, lawmen, settlers, buffalo hunters,
railroads, cowboy hats, and barbed wire, all the elements that
made a new culture.
 The
Real Wild West: The Making of a Nation
The Wild West has always held a fascination for us, but our
image of what it was really like has been glamorised by TV and
Hollywood. The real Wild West offered a new life and new opportunities
to the pioneers who rafted up the Missouri and crossed the Rockies
to stake their claim in the unexplored wilderness of Louisiana.
But it was not called 'Wild' for nothing! It was a tough life
for the trail blazers and those who followed them. This fascinating
book offers a unique insight into the realities of life for
the men, women and children who carved out a future for themselves
in this hostile environment.
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