So you guys have me reading Calloway's "White People, Indians, and Highlanders."

I'm wrapping up and back on page 234 I find, "Hugo Reid, originally from Cardross (north of the Clyde), came to America as a sailor and jumped ship at Los Angeles in 1832. He married a Gabrielino Indian woman named Victoria and adopted her children, who took his surname and evidently also took to wearing kilts."

No details other than that tease...footnotes go to old stuff.

But DANG!!! 177 years of kilting in Los Angeles....something to celebrate - who'd have ever thunk it??

Whoa!! Googled the guy and here's a whole bunch of info http://www.laokay.com/halac/HugoReidAdobe.htm Looks like they named a school after him too.

Ron