Plaids & Bandanas: From Highland Drover to Wildwest Cowboy

By Rob Gibson

From droving to driving, reivers to rustlers, heilan kye to long horns, Plaids and Bandanas explores the link between the two cattle cultures in music, song and dance, and folklore. The vast number of Scots who emigrated to North America has been well documented, whether through forcible eviction during the clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries, or voluntarily in the hope of a better life. With them they took their culture, their language, their music, and their skills. Cattle droving in Scotland was an established profession from the 16th century, and many such migrants took cowboy jobs in the American West.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094648788X
• ISBN13: 9780946487882
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Luath Press Limited
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.3"