Hard Neighbors

Download or read book Hard Neighbors written by Colin G Calloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-02 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Calloway offers an intricate portrait of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish -- from their origins on borderlands on one side of the Atlantic to their crucial part in conquering borderlands on the other. "Hard neighbors," as they were called, the Scotch-Irish were the tip of the spear of white colonial expansion into Indian lands, earning a reputation first as Indian killers and then as embodiments of the American pioneer spirit.