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An Historical Account Of The Settlements Of Scotch Highlanders In America Prior To The Peace Of 1783; Together With Notices Of Highland Regiments And Biographical Sketches (1900)

Biographies & Memoirs

MacLean, J.P.

Arts & Literature

Kessinger Publishing

A monumental history of the venerable MacLeans, who's history is interwoven with the history of Scotland, like the bright threads of the clan tartan. From Druidism to the Battle of Culloden, from family feuds to coats of arms; no facet of Scottish and Mac

A HISTORY of the CLAN MACLEAN

History

Europe

Heritage Books

This detailed tome opens with a brief history of the Highlanders in Scotland, followed by an account of Highlanders in the Colonies. Other topics include settlement in NC, and GA, Captain Campbell's NY Colony, settlement on the Mohawk, Prince Edward Island and Pictou (Nove Scotia), Highlanders in the French and Indian War and on both sides of the Revolution, and distinguished Highlanders in America.

An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders In America Prior to the Peace of 1783 Together with Notices of Highland Regiments and Biographical Sketches

Literature & Fiction

Literary

A history of the clan Mac Lean from its first settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the present period: Including a genealogical account ... their heraldry, legends, superstitions, etc

Scotspress for the Clan MacLean Society, USA

A critical examination of the evidences adduced to establish the theory of the Norse discovery of America

Americas

BiblioLife

BiblioBazaar

Dubhaird Caistfal

Historical

When Europeans first came upon the giant mounds and earthworks dotting the North American landscape in the 18th century, they couldn't imagine that the Native Americans they came into contact with were capable of such advanced technology and masterful engineering. In fact, when President George Washington sent adventurer and military strategist Rufus Putnam to survey the land at the convergence of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers in southeastern Ohio for settlement, Putnam reported that he’d discovered an impressive walled earthwork complex near present-day Marietta that was obviously the breastwork of an ancient fortress built by some long-forgotten ancient civilization. Like others of his time, Putnam couldn’t conceive that indigenous Americans had at one time reached such an advanced level of cultural and technical sophistication. As detailed by Thomas Jefferson in his 1783 book, Notes on the State of Virginia, about 1780 the future American President began to excavate a mound near Montecello, his Virginia estate. He noted, “I determined to open and examine it thoroughly. It was situated on the low grounds of the Rivanna [River], about two miles above its principal fork, and opposite to some hills, on which had been an Indian town. It was of a spheroidical form, of about 40 feet diameter at the base.” Jefferson discovered stratified human remains and ultimately concluded that this particular mound was an ancient Indian burial place. Credited with what was perhaps the first systematic archaeological excavation in North America, Jefferson came to the realization that different mounds might serve different uses, which has since been proven correct. However, even as these elaborate earthen complexes have ultimately yielded tens of thousands of artifacts, including earspools, panpipes, effigy figurines, engraved copper gorgets, head plates and headdresses, bone hair pins, silver and copper tablets, game stones, greenstone axes, flint blades, and zoomorphic effigy vessels (to list just a few), they have really only added to the mystery and intrigue surrounding the “Mound Builders” as these ancient peoples are now known. These standing testaments to early man’s extraordinary accomplishments continue to speak of a period of time about which scholars can only theorize. With no evidence of a written language and a high probability that associated groups spoke different languages (based on the earliest lingual patterns encountered from each region), what the so-called “Mound Builders” accomplished in the span of a few centuries is nothing short of phenomenal.

The Mound Builders

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