Backpacking with 300 year old equipment....

[AJMD429]

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https://youtu.be/L8GE23uWHtI

'Highlander style'...

[gamekeeper]

I watch a lot of YouTube videos on historical re-enacting, it is a great way to learn just how our forefathers survived... I'm too old and spoiled by modern living now, I doubt I would last a day in the 17th or 18th century.

[Old Savage]

The Highland cleanse apparently drove a lot of Scots to America.

[AJMD429]

The Highland cleanse apparently drove a lot of Scots to America.

I always figured that Highlander sounded pretty noble versus Lowlander, but after listening to a video by Thomas Sowell on the modern ghetto culture, and its language, culture, and origins actually being from white Europeans, I learned that the Scottish highlanders, not being on the lowland/coast where trade was happening, didn’t have to bother to learn language, or math, or civilized social skills, and mostly snuck across the border and pillaged English farms. I read a book called “The Steel Bonnets” that further elaborated on all that. A rough crowd indeed.

[Old Savage]

Read a number of sources on what transpired taking the lands in the Highlands.

[Bill in Oregon]

I was looking into the origins of one of the old family names, i.e. Rutledge, and I ended up reading about the merciless "Border Rievers" along the borders of Scotland and England. None would have been accused of being a gentleman!
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/H ... r-Reivers/

Thanks for that link, Doc. That fellow has a bunch of interesting Youtubes.