First Across the Continent THE OKLAHOMA WESTERN BIOGRAPHIES RICHARD W. ETULAIN, GENERAL EDITOR And we in dreams behold the Hebrides! Yet there is no denying the maritime nature of the place, for nearby the rocky shoreline leads to the sea. Soldiers returning to Scotland from campaigns in colonial America told of unbounded wealth and opportunity in the New World. During the first decade of Alexander's life in the Hebrides, some twenty thousand Highlanders left their homes for the other side of the Atlantic. At community parties the Scots did a "Dance Called America" in which everything was in motion, pendencies arrived with one Canoe in which he had 20 Packs of furs besides his own things which is not common for a Canadian Master to have ...