The Scots-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley
By Billy Kennedy.
Description
The beautiful Shenandoah Valley alongside the majestic backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains is the idyllic setting for the intriguing story of a resolute people who tamed the wilderness of the American frontier. The Ulster Presbyterian stock, or the Scots-Irish, as they were known, created a civilization in the Shenandoah during the 18th century that was to be the springboard for further frontier advance and settlement to the West. These hardy Calvinist families had endured extreme hardships in the bleak homelands they left behind in the north of Ireland, and, after overcoming nightmarish...
ISBN(s)
1898787794, 9781898787792
