A pistol in Greenyards
By: by Mollie Hunter ; illustrations by Elizabeth Grant
Publisher: Evans Bros.
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Fiction; History; Adventure and adventurers
Description: The enclosure movement brought many Scots to exile in America in the middle of the nineteenth century. A fifteen-year-old boy describes the brutality that accompanied the usurpation of small farms of Northern Scotland for sheep grazing and his own role that led to crime and flight to the New World.