Title: The packhorseman
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Scots, Indian traders, Fur trade, History, Cherokee Indians, Fiction, coming of age, South carolina, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general
Places: South Carolina
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
LC classification: PS3608.U343 P33 2009