{"product_id":"15-tales-that-shaped-the-gregors-and-scotland","title":"15 Tales That Shaped the Gregors and Scotland","description":"\u003cp\u003eGet a physical copy of this book on Amazon - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GHJP7YNB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GHJP7YNB\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e15 Tales That Shaped the Gregors and Scotland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey lost their lands. Their name was outlawed. Their chiefs were hunted, executed, and driven into the mountains. Yet Clan Gregor refused to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStories From Clan Gregor\u003c\/em\u003e brings together fifteen dramatic tales from one of Scotland’s most famous and fiercely resilient Highland clans. Moving between documented history, Highland tradition, folklore, tragedy, warfare, romance, and adventure, these stories reveal the people and events that transformed the MacGregors from powerful Highland landholders into the legendary “Children of the Mist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover the world of Gregor of the Golden Bridles and the struggle between traditional Highland landholding and the growing power of feudal law. Follow the tragic story of Gregor Roy MacGregor and Marion Campbell, remembered through the haunting Gaelic lament \u003cem\u003eGriogal Cridhe\u003c\/em\u003e. Enter the bloody feud that culminated at Glen Fruin and the extraordinary Act of Proscription that attempted to erase the MacGregor name itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story continues through the hidden years in the Trossachs, the rise of Rob Roy MacGregor, his battles of wits with powerful enemies, and the remarkable escapes that helped turn him into one of Scotland’s greatest folk heroes. The book also follows the MacGregors into the Jacobite era, the devastation of the Highlands, the eventual restoration of the clan name, and the nineteenth-century revival that transformed former outlaws into celebrated symbols of Highland Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Clan Gregor’s story is not limited to battles and persecution. These pages also explore strange Highland folklore, ancient carved stones, family memory, royal pageantry, and the astonishing career of Gregor MacGregor—the self-proclaimed Cazique of Poyais whose imaginary Central American kingdom became one of the most notorious confidence schemes of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInside This Book You Will Discover:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe story behind the MacGregors’ claim to be the “Seed of Alpin”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the Campbells and the changing Scottish legal system transformed Clan Gregor’s fortunes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe tragic love story remembered in \u003cem\u003eGriogal Cridhe\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe gruesome legend of the Vow of the Trout’s Head\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Battle of Glen Fruin and its devastating consequences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the MacGregor name was outlawed and the clan driven underground\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe eerie folklore surrounding the Urisks of the Trossachs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe adventures and escapes that created the legend of Rob Roy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe MacGregors during the Jacobite era and the Burning of the Braes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe extraordinary Poyais scheme of Gregor MacGregor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe restoration of the MacGregor name and the clan’s return to public life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe monuments, traditions, and memories that preserve Clan Gregor’s heritage today\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten for readers who want more than dates, pedigrees, and lists of chiefs, \u003cem\u003eStories From Clan Gregor\u003c\/em\u003e places you inside the events that shaped the clan. 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