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8vo-Between 7 3/4" and 9 3/4" 404 page book is in very good condition with slight [...]
8vo-Between 7 3/4" and 9 3/4" 404 page book is in very good condition with slight edgewear/scuffing of cover, and slight discoloration on page sides. This book is about the Border reivers, who were the rustlers, outlaws, and gangsters that terrorized the Anglo-Scottish frontier of four hundred years ago. Theirs is an almost forgotten chapter of British history, preserved largely in folk-tales and ballads. It is the story of the great raiding families--Armstrongs, Elliots, Grahams, Johnstones, Maxwells, Scotts, Kerrs, Nixons and others--of the outlaw bands and broken men, the "hot trod" pursuits, and the great battles of English and Scottish armies across the Marches. This book tells their true story for the first time and in its historical context--how the reivers ran their raids and operated their system of blackmail and terrorism, and how the March Wardens, operating the unique Border law, fought the great lawless community.
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$12.38
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