Sam Mcclanahan

From Glen to Glen Sam Mcclanahan

Sam McClanahan has spent yearsresearching the origins and migration patterns of his ?Scotch-Irish? ancestorsbefore finally completing From Glen to Glen. Beginning in 1610, the noveldepicts the migration of the Scotch-Irish by tracing the movement of generationsof ?MacLeans?, a fictional family, from the Lowlands of Scotland, to Ulster inthe north of Ireland and finally to America in the early 1700?s. This novelpresents the historical progression of a people that have had such a majorimpact on the shaping of America. The book will not only appeal to those Americans descended from the?Scotch-Irish?, but anyone who enjoys reading a fast-paced, action-packed,highly romantic, historically-accurate novel presented in the most fundamentalhuman terms. When Hugh O?Neill, one of thelast great Irish Clan Leaders, is finally defeated, King James I of Englandmoves quickly to control the province of Ulster in Northern Ireland by encouraging Scottish Lowlandersto cross the Irish Sea and settle there. By 1610, thesehardy folk are flocking to the port city of Dumfriesseeking passage to Ireland. Young Alexander MacLean?s opportunity to escape the drudgery of life in Scotlandcomes quite suddenly and unexpectedly when he discovers Sir Rodney Dunbar, hisLandlord?s son, attempting to rape Anne Campbell, the girl Alexander loves andplans to marry. Alexander slays Sir Rodney and he and Anne escape to Ireland. Befriended by other Scots, Alexander and Anne settle down in County Tyrone. They are soon joined thereby Alexander?s strikenly, beautiful sister, Priscilla, who soon falls in lovewith the handsome, young, Irish outlaw, Kevin Lynch. After almost a centurymarked by bloody rebellion Alexander and Anne MacLean?s and Kevin and PriscillaLynchs? great-grandchildren join the great exodus of Ulstermen bound for the New World.