Top-notch stuff here. I think we need a new wave of historical fiction highlighting the settlers, pioneers, trail-blazers, and adventurers who made America.
I’m talking about people like the hard-fighting, hard-drinking Scots-Irish, and for that matter the much smaller number of Highlanders and Island Scots who settled in eastern North Carolina (the latter included some of my own ancestors). And let’s not forget the Mountain Men who penetrated the West to trap furs, and had all kinds of interactions with the Indians.
For that matter, I’d like to see more focus on men like William Walker, the filibuster who invaded Nicaragua and briefly set himself up as president before being ousted by an invasion of other Central American nations:
He did try to bring back African slavery in Nicaragua, which gives lefties even more reason to hate him even as they ignore the entire history of slavery by everybody else.
Stepping outside of the American context, I’ve also started reading up on the Afrikaners, and it’s such a fascinating funhouse mirror of American history.
Top-notch stuff here. I think we need a new wave of historical fiction highlighting the settlers, pioneers, trail-blazers, and adventurers who made America.
I’m talking about people like the hard-fighting, hard-drinking Scots-Irish, and for that matter the much smaller number of Highlanders and Island Scots who settled in eastern North Carolina (the latter included some of my own ancestors). And let’s not forget the Mountain Men who penetrated the West to trap furs, and had all kinds of interactions with the Indians.
For that matter, I’d like to see more focus on men like William Walker, the filibuster who invaded Nicaragua and briefly set himself up as president before being ousted by an invasion of other Central American nations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster)
He did try to bring back African slavery in Nicaragua, which gives lefties even more reason to hate him even as they ignore the entire history of slavery by everybody else.
Stepping outside of the American context, I’ve also started reading up on the Afrikaners, and it’s such a fascinating funhouse mirror of American history.