Scots in the American West

Scots in the American West, an exhibit produced by the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, (www.centerofthewest.org) heads to New York to celebrate the 13th Annual Tartan Day on Ellis Island, March 28 to 30, 2014.

The exhibition will share stories and images of individuals of Scottish descent in the American West.

The presence of Scots in America began in the late 1600s when Glasgow, Scotland, was the European center for the Virginia tobacco trade, and Scots-Presbyterian dissenters in search of religious freedom established their own colonies in South Carolina and New Jersey. In the 1700s, population growth, agricultural modernization, and political upheaval in Scotland were the driving forces behind more than 50,000 immigrants crossing the Atlantic to America.

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