God’s Frontiersmen: The Scots-Irish Epic.
Author: FITZPATRICK, Rory.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989. viii, 296 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
The eventful 400-year history of the Scots-Irish from the first Scottish Presbyterian settlers in Ulster in the early seventeenth century to the present day.
Includes the stories of some of the most colourful figures in history who came from Ulster stock, among them the frontiersmen Davy Crockett and Kit Carson, the American Civil War generals Stonewall Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant, the US President Andrew Jackson, and the legendary Australian bushranger known as ‘Captain Moonlite’.
The experiences of many Scots-Irish emigrants to the New World, and later to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, vividly brought to life in extracts from their diaries and letters home.
CONTENTS:-
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Roots of a People
2 Saints and Horse-Thieves
3 The Sword of the Lord
4 A New Glimpse of Zion
5 Blood on the Buckskin
6 God-Provoking Democrats
7 In Search of America
8 Whiskey in the White House
9 Mountain Men and Millionaires
10 Hearts of Ulster
11 Cockpit City
12 The Sash Across the Sea
13 Promised Lands Down Under
14 Contracts and Covenants
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration
Acknowledgments
Index
ISBN: 0297794353
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