[R. Scott]

The winner always writes the history books and of course they tend to leave out the unpleasantries.

I was fortunate to belong to a clan that kept a nearly continuous family history for several centuries. I haven’t been to a reunion in many years, but the high point for me was when the clan historian would open a chest and pull a volume at random and read an account from “way back when”. It wasn’t all nice and sugary sweet. The Ewings (McEwen back then) had some hard core frontiersmen.

[wildbill]

By the way, the Scot-Irish frontiersmen were prominent in the Texas Rangers--and consequently in the constant 'bandit wars' along the Texas Mexico border. If you look at the rosters, you begin to realize that almost all of them are Scots-Irish names.

In one way, the border troubles took on the aspect of a feud between rival clans of Mexicans and Scots-Irish.

Read the new book on the ScotsIrish by James E. Webb:
Born Fighting or how the Scots-Irish shaped America.