Fête galante. Only (17)80s kids remember this.
О горцах.
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"This rapid transformation in appearance quickly set them apart from the wigs and buckles and frilly shirts of New England. Almost immediately the frontier revitalized the hunter-warrior encoding in their bloodline...In a belt around their waist, they wore...a tomahawk and a scalping knife for hunting & self-defense...Skill with a rifle & knife were essential to survival, & a good marksman had great status in his community." ("The Other Irish" p32, by McCarthy)
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"They would not go to America as Scots or Irishmen...A century of turmoil in the beautiful but tormented hills of Ulster had changed them. They were...farmers & fighters, these 2 callings inseparable in their history & culture. But they were now a different people. Their blood & traditions had been shaped by centuries in SCT, then both hardened and sentimentalized by IRE. And yet neither land would ever again fully claim them. They were the unsung orphans of both." ("Born Fighting", p118)
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"This rapid transformation in appearance quickly set them apart from the wigs and buckles and frilly shirts of New England. Almost immediately the frontier revitalized the hunter-warrior encoding in their bloodline...In a belt around their waist, they wore...a tomahawk and a scalping knife for hunting & self-defense...Skill with a rifle & knife were essential to survival, & a good marksman had great status in his community." ("The Other Irish" p32, by McCarthy)
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"They would not go to America as Scots or Irishmen...A century of turmoil in the beautiful but tormented hills of Ulster had changed them. They were...farmers & fighters, these 2 callings inseparable in their history & culture. But they were now a different people. Their blood & traditions had been shaped by centuries in SCT, then both hardened and sentimentalized by IRE. And yet neither land would ever again fully claim them. They were the unsung orphans of both." ("Born Fighting", p118)