Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Credits vii
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Foreword xiv
6. A Note on Names and Terminology xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 A Commission of Fire and Sword: Breadalbane Takes Caithness 7
9. 2 Parks and Furrestorie: A Proposall for Langwall 11
10. 3 For Every Scot in Favour there is 99 Against: The Act of Union 19
11. 4 The Hospitable Mansion: The Sutherlands of Langwell 25
12. 5 Long Acres: The Droving Trade 34
13. 6 The Horrour of it Must Wear Off: The Profits of Enslavement 42
14. 7 The Saturday Slap: Walter Gray Struggles On 47
15. 8 A Serious Desire to Do Good: Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster 53
16. 9 An Caorach Mhor: The Coming of the Sheep 62
17. 10 As Many as Possible of the Present Inhabitants Ought to Be Retained: Sir John’s Sheep Scheme 68
18. 11 A Whole Neighbourhood is Set Afloat: Early Emigration 76
19. 12 Whole Baronies into Sheepfarms: The Coming of the Flockmasters 84
20. 13 The Chief of the Arts: Agricultural Innovation in Caithness 90
21. 14 The Fire! The Fire! The Kildonan Riots 98
22. 15 Never Out of the Law: James Horne Buys Langwell 106
23. 16 Land for Votes: The Political Hornes 112
24. 17 Mischief This Night: Sheep Stealing in the North 118
25. 18 The Silver Darlings: The Fishing Boom 127
26. 19 Improving on Improvement: James Horne at Langwell 137
27. 20 The Great Donald: Donald Horne Succeeds to Langwell 145
28. 21 Uncertain and Exaggerated Benefits: Hunger and Emigration in the Nineteenth Century 149
29. 22 The Coming of the Steamers: Sea Connections 159
30. 23 From the Pen to the Plough: Horne Expands into Clyth 166
31. 24 The Deserted Villages: From the Land to the Sea 169
32. 25 All the Grouse are Killed: The Coming of the Sportsmen 173
33. 26 Destitution Road: Famine 180
34. 27 The Empty Estates: The Fall of the House of Stirkoke 193
35. 28 Running before the Wind: Caithness Havens 198
36. 29 Mad, Blind and Impious: The Eviction Scandal 202
37. 30 Fit for a Maharajah: Langwell for Sale 215
38. Family Trees: The Sutherland, Gray and Horne Families 226
39. Appendix: The Defenders named in Summonses of Removal, 1763 to 1857 229
40. Notes 243
41. Bibliography 275
42. Index 293
43. Plates 311