The Steel Bonnets – The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

The Steel Bonnets – The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers – Author George MacDonald Fraser – Paperback

Publisher: Harper Collins

It was said of the Border reivers, the rustlers, outlaws and gangsters who terrorized the Anglo-Scottish frontier of four hundred years ago. Theirs is an almost forgotten chapere of Brittish 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 ment he hot trod pursuits and the great battles of English and Scottish armies across the Marches. The Steel Bonnet 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.
404 Pages