Kilts in Westerns

**macwilkin** · 7th January 09, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Daw

This is according to Susanna Dickinson whose credibility is suspect because she contradicted herself in a few newspaper interviews she gave over the years since the battle. Although she married a couple of times, she also sold her body as well as her stories in order to eat. Joe, Colonel Travis' personal slave and fellow survivor, never corroborated this particular tale. But, it could still be true. I'd like it to be.

Several years ago I contacted Dr. Richard Winders, curator of the Alamo museum and a noted Alamo scholar about John Macgregor. I asked him about this particular story, but he never really questioned Dickinson's accuracy if I remember correctly. I have heard others question it, but of course, I've seen a number of primary sources that contradict themselves over the years.

It's too bad no one thought to ask Louis Rose, as legend says he faced the Highland Regiments with Napoleon's Grand Armee in Spain.

I hope it is true myself...

T.

**Wompet** · 17th December 08, 11:20 AM

There's also a balmoral with badge and feather in Quigley Down Under. No kilts though.

**McClef** · 17th December 08, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by Prester John

I remember Ray Walston played an Irishman! but remember no Scot in it.

It didn't sound Irish to me - more like someone from the north of England - a Yorkshireman or Lancastrian.

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 29th December 08, 08:07 PM

Maybe he was from Liverpool... lots of Irish there!

**Riverkilt** · 29th December 08, 09:15 PM

A modern western filmed in New Mexico, Christmas in the Clouds, has a cameo of Wes Studi kilted.

I've seen Paint Your Wagon a lot. Love it..."Unmount!" 'Welcome to Hell preacher!" "Whatever the bid is, I double it!"

Walston's character is named Mad Jack Duncan and has, to me, a thick Scottish accent.

Ron

**David Dubh** · 29th December 08, 09:45 PM

I don't recall any westerns. But I did see an old pirate movie with a very young James Earl Jones. In one the scene when he is rescued from the gallows one of the hands in the rigging is in the kilt. Anyone know the movie??

**auld argonian** · 29th December 08, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by David Dubh

I don't recall any westerns. But I did see an old pirate movie with a very young James Earl Jones. In one the scene when he is rescued from the gallows one of the hands in the rigging is in the kilt. Anyone know the movie??

Swashbuckler.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075294/

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**Finn** · 29th December 08, 10:34 PM

If the colonies were the East, does that make Pittsburgh the West?
"The Unconquered" starring Gary Cooper has Highlanders at the end.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800225784/info

**macwilkin** · 7th January 09, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Finn

If the colonies were the East, does that make Pittsburgh the West?
"The Unconquered" starring Gary Cooper has Highlanders at the end.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800225784/info

Frederick Jackson Turner* certainly would agree with you!

*the author of the "Frontier Thesis" of American history.

T.