The packhorseman
By: Charles Hudson.
Series: Fire ant books
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780817355401
Subjects: Scots -- South Carolina -- Fiction; Fur trade -- Fiction; Cherokee Indians -- Fiction; Indian traders -- Fiction; South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In April 1735, twenty-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch whiskey and a set of Shakespeares 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 his employment opportunities, he seizes the one option still open for him and takes a job as a frontier packhorseman.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.