Research Catalog

Title

The packhorseman / Charles Hudson.

Author

Hudson, Charles M.

Publication

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

xii, 266 p. : map; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Fire ant books

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Fire ant books

Subject

• 1600-1775
• Scots > South Carolina > Fiction
• Fur trade > Fiction
• Cherokee Indians > Fiction
• Indian traders > Fiction
• South Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Historical fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Fiction
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-266).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Highland born -- The Indian trade -- Charles town -- How to pack a horse -- Jim-bird -- The road North -- MacDonald's cowpen -- Border country -- Macbeth -- Keowee -- The trading house -- Otter queen -- Marriage bed -- Verona -- Cause of death -- Tugalo -- How to skin a deer -- Uktena -- Bloody mouth -- The devil's piss -- "The sun for sorrow will not show his head" -- Do witches exist? -- Just sing.

ISBN

• 9780817382407 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0817382402 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9780817355401 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0817355405 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008041892

OCLC

• 256770543
• SCSB-11314464

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library