Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the
Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their
heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials
of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to
Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region
upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to
America, where they settled especially in the back-country of
Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after
the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.
