Upper Clydesdale: A History and a Guide

by Daniel Martin (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $7.20

  Moving from prehistoric and Roman through medieval and covenanting to industrial and modern times, this text offers an account of the history and times of Upper Clydesdale. Figures encountered in the text include Sir William Wallace, the Black Douglases, Robert Burns, Lord Braxfield, Gladstone, and Hugh MacDiarmid, with events along the way such as gold mining, Scotland's first lending library, and the world's first successful steam boat.