A Drifting Cowboy Blogspot Index — April 2026

 

The Highland Clan McNeill and the Garron

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-highland-clan-mcneill-and-garron.html

Our Pilgrim Ancestors (Plymouth Colony): Arrived on the Mayflower in 1620

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/our-pilgrim-ancestors-plymouth-colony.html

Tracing our McNeills of Taynish and Gigha

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/tracing-our-mcneills-of-taynish-and.html

The Cowboy Who Cashed In a Winner

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-cowboy-who-cashed-in-winner.html

Scottish Bishop to Colonial Patriots and a Frontier Blacksmith: Our Boyd Lineage

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/scottish-bishop-to-colonial-patriots.html

Our Norse-Gaelic DNA from Somerled Mac Gillebride, King of the Isles — and Two Remarkable Grandmothers

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/our-norse-gaelic-dna-from-somerled-mac.html

America 250, Cousin Robert Townsend, Alias Samuel Culper Jr., was a Spy for George Washington

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/america-250-cousin-robert-townsend.html

Henry I Sinclair Earl of Orkney, Lord of Roslin: 14th-century Mariner

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/henry-i-sinclair-earl-of-orkney-lord-of.html

PART IV -- The Noisy Jarl’s Bloodline: A 36-Generation Saga from Viking Longships to American Frontiers

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/part-iv-noisy-jarls-bloodline-36.html

PART III -- The Noisy Jarl’s Bloodline: A 36-Generation Saga from Viking Longships to American Frontiers

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/part-iii-noisy-jarls-bloodline-36.html

PART II -- The Noisy Jarl’s Bloodline: A 36-Generation Saga from Viking Longships to American Frontiers

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/part-ii-noisy-jarls-bloodline-36.html

PART I -- The Noisy Jarl’s Bloodline: A 36-Generation Saga from Viking Longships to American Frontiers

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/04/part-i-noisy-jarls-bloodline-36.html

Our Hallowell Quaker family and the Easton Treaty of 1757

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/03/our-hallowell-family-and-friendly.html

Great grandfather, Jurian Haff, was a 1640s Field Trumpeter in the Army of the Dutch Empire of Brazil

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/03/great-grandfather-jurian-haff-was-1640s.html

Captain Claes Hendrickszen Lock: Prominent 17th-century sloop owner in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/03/captain-claes-hendrickszen-lock.html

An Intriguing New Netherland Land Purchase by Jan Fransse Van Hoesen (1608–1665), Our 9th Great-Grandfather

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/03/an-intriguing-new-netherland-land.html

COMING TO AMERICA PART III — Threads of Liberty: Ancestral Rejections of British Dominion Across Scottish, French, and American Lines

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/03/coming-to-america-part-iii-threads-of.html

COMING TO AMERICA PART II — From Conquest to Exile: The Struggles of French Canadians Under British Rule, 1763–1830

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/03/coming-to-america-part-ii-from-conquest.html

COMING TO AMERICA PART I — Echoes of the Frontier: Ancestors on Both Sides of the Fur Wars

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/03/coming-to-america-part-i-echoes-of.html

Genealogy Act of Kindness: Enjoy my Free Book about La Prairie's Fur Trade

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/02/genealogy-act-of-kindness-enjoy-my-free.html

America 250, Caleb Sweet: An Original Member of the Society of the Cincinnati

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/02/america-250-caleb-sweet-original-member.html

America 250, GEORGE MASON: WHO WAS INFLUENTIAL IN PENNING THE BILL OF RIGHTS

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/02/america-250-george-mason-who-was.html

America 250, Oliver Ellsworth: A Most Underrated Founding Father

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/02/america-250-oliver-ellsworth-most.html

America 250, Ichabod Hawes: Colonial-era Gunsmith

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/02/america-250-ichabod-hawes-colonial-era.html

America 250, My Cowboy Legacy: Peaceable Folks and a Rough Rider

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/02/america-250-my-cowboy-legacy-peaceable.html

America 250, The Winthrop Circle: Kinship, Migration, and the “City Upon a Hill”

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/02/america-250-winthrop-circle-kinship.html

America 250, The 2nd Montana Infantry Regiment, Company H, 1908

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/02/america-250-2nd-montana-infantry.html

Gabriel Pinsonneau dit Lafleur & Castorland, N.Y.

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/01/gabriel-pinsonneau-dit-lafleur.html

Why Canoeing Might Be in Jerry's Genes

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/01/why-canoeing-might-be-in-jerrys-genes.html

Cowboy Legacy: Unraveling the French-Canadian Saga of Lucy Pinsonneault

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/01/cowboy-legacy-unraveling-french.html

Our Head Family: Tied to valleys' heads, mills' hum, and rivers' flow

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/our-head-family-tied-to-valleys-heads.html

1917, Retirement from the Royal Gun and Carriage Factory

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/1917-retirement-from-royal-gun-and.html

From ancient New Forest across storm-tossed seas to Yankee shores

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/from-ancient-new-forest-across-storm.html

Scottish tenacity, from crofts to frontiers

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/scottish-tenacity-from-crofts-to.html

Interpreters and Guides: The Heart of the Fur Trade

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/interpreters-and-guides-heart-of-fur.html

Ancestral Calling--The River’s Blood: The Long Echo of the Canoe

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/ancestral-calling-rivers-blood-long.html

BOOK DRAFT: The River’s Blood: The La Prairie Voyageur Legacy by Drifting Cowboy

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-book-rivers-blood-la-prairie.html

The Life of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-life-of-pierre-gaultier-de-varennes.html

The Life and Journeys of René Bourassa dit LaRonde

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-life-and-journeys-of-rene-bourassa.html

From Rapids to Resilience: The Epic Tale of La Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/from-rapids-to-resilience-epic-tale-of.html

Holy Smoke, Maybe Our Voyageur Ancestors Were Actually Vikings, 2025 update

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/holy-smoke-maybe-our-voyageur-ancestors.html

From Rollo’s Viking Invasion of Normandy to the Voyageurs of New France

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/from-rollos-viking-invasion-of-normandy.html

From Charlemagne's Legacy to New France: Tracing the Royal Descent to Anne Couvent, Mother of Voyageurs

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/from-charlemagnes-legacy-to-new-france.html

Whispers of the Wilderness Exchange: An Ode to the fur Trade

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/whispers-of-wilderness-exchange-ode-to.html

Pierre Poupart: Master Blacksmith and Trade Axe Maker

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/pierre-poupart-master-blacksmith-and.html

Paddler’s Dawn: Duquet Family Canoe Builders

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/paddlers-dawn-duquet-family-canoe.html

Echoes of the Eternal Migration: The Eagle, the Dragonfly, and the Buffalo

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/12/echoes-of-eternal-migration-eagle.html

The Frontier Forge: Valentine Boyd, Village Blacksmith

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-frontier-forge-valentine-boyd.html

The River's Blood: The La Prairie Voyageur Legacy

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-rivers-blood-la-prairie-voyageur.html

Great Granddad, William Avery, Was a Victorian Coachman

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/11/great-granddad-william-avery-was.html

The Arsenal’s Shadow and the Home Builder’s Dream

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-arsenals-shadow-and-home-builders.html

A saga of Colonsay’s McNeill clan, and their PEI arrival

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-saga-of-colonsays-mcneill-clan-and.html

Gunner's Gamble: John Headd in the Yellow Fever Wars (1795–1798)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/11/gunners-gamble-john-headd-in-yellow.html

The 1806 voyage of the Spencer from Colonsay Scotland to PEI

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-1806-voyage-of-spencer-from.html

New Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-ripples-from-la-prairie-voyageur.html

About: A Drifting Cowboy blogspot (Courtesy of GROK)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/10/about-drifting-cowboy-blogspot-courtesy.html

Immigrant Ancestors and the Great Puritan Migration (1620-1640)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/08/immigrant-ancestors-and-great-puritan.html

HOMAGE TO MY VOYAGEUR ANCESTORS

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/06/homage-to-my-voyageur-ancestors.html

SEVEN GENERATIONS OF VOYAGEUR ANCESTORS

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/05/seven-generations-of-voyageur-ancestors.html

French-Canadian Fur Trade Heritage Presentation

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/05/french-canadian-fur-trade-heritage.html

ARE YOU RELATED TO HISTORICAL FIGURES — FAMOUS COWBOY KIN

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/04/are-you-related-to-historical-figures.html

The little boy who loved horses, cowboys and the West

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/04/once-there-was-little-boy-who-loved.html

ANTIQUE WOODWORKER'S TOOL CHEST c. 1900

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/04/antique-woodworkers-tool-chest-c-1900.html

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A TREASURE CHEST!

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/04/everyone-should-have-treasure-chest.html

SILVER SCREEN HEROES in Chatsworth Movies

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/03/silver-screen-heroes-in-chatsworth.html

CHATSWORTH — FILMING LOCATION FEATURES -- aka ROCK STARS

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/03/chatsworth-filming-location-features.html

CHATSWORTH MOVIES - A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF FILMS LENSED HERE

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/03/chatsworth-movies-comprehensive-list-of.html

A Drifting Cowboy’s Fishing and Canoeing Tales

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-drifting-cowboys-fishing-and-canoeing.html

A Drifting Cowboy’s -- Video Links

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-drifting-cowboys-video-links.html

A Drifting Cowboy's Yarns & Tall Tales

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-drifting-cowboys-tales.html

FAMILY HISTORY TALES & LINKS

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/03/family-history-cowboy-legacy-links.html

Be sure to check out my other blog about the Fur Trade

La Prairie Voyageur Canoes Index — April 2026

https://laprairie-voyageur-canoes.blogspot.com/2026/04/la-prairie-voyageur-canoes-index-april.html

A DRIFTING COWBOY BLOGSPOT (INDEX JAN. 2016 -- MAR. 2025)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-drifting-cowboy-blogspot-links-aug.html

CHATSWORTH AND HORSES, 25 YEARS LATER

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2025/01/chatsworth-and-horses-25-years-later.html

CHATSWORTH MOVIES — updated 2024

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2023/05/chatsworth-movies-updated-links.html

A Drifting Cowboy's Voyageur Legacy Vignettes (2015 - 2018 index)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-drifting-cowboys-voyageur-legacy.html

MOLESWORTH INSPIRED FURNITURE BY JERRY ENGLAND (1989-2002)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2021/04/cowboy-chic-funiture-by-lure-of-dim.html

About: A Drifting Cowboy blogspot (Courtesy of GROK)

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