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