Lists of Illustrations and picture credits List of Maps List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Foreword Notes on Names and Terminology Introduction: title tbc 1. A Commission of Fire and Sword: Breadalbane takes Caithness 2. Parks and Furrestorie: A Proposall for Langwall 3. For Every Scot in Favour There is 99 Against: The Act of Union 4. The Hospitable Mansion: The Sutherlands of Langwell 5. Long Acres: The Droving Trade 6. 'The Horrour of It Must Wear Off': The Profits of Slavery 7. The 'Saturday Slap': Walter Gray Struggles On 8.

A Serious Desire to do Good: Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster 9. An Caorach Mhor: The Coming of the Sheep 10. As Many As Possible of the Present Inhabitants Ought to be Retained: Sir John's Sheep Scheme 11. A Whole Neighbourhood is Set Afloat: Early Emigration 12. Whole Baronies Into Sheepfarms: The Coming of the Flockmasters 13. The Chief of the Arts: Agricultural Innovation in Caithness 14. The Fire! The Fire! The Kildonan Riots 15. Never Out of the Law: James Horne Buys Langwell 16.

Land For Votes: The Political Hornes 17. Mischief This Night: Sheep Stealing in the North 18. The Silver Darlings: The Fishing Boom 19. Improving on Improvement: James Horne at Langwell 20. The Great Donald: Donald Horne Succeeds to Langwell 21. Uncertain and Exaggerated Benefits: Hunger and Emigration in the Nineteenth Century 22. The Coming of the Steamers: Sea Connections 23. 'From the Pen to the Plough': Horne Expands into Clyth 24.

The Deserted Villages: From the Land to the Sea 25. All the Grouse are Killed: The Coming of the Sportsmen 26. Destitution Road: Famine 27. The Empty Estates: The Fall of the House of Stirkoke 28. Running Before the Wind: Caithness Havens 29. Mad, Blind and Impious: The Eviction Scandal 30. Fit For A Maharajah: Langwell for Sale Family Trees: The Sutherland, Gray and Horne Families Appendix: The Defenders named in Summonses of Removal, 1763 to 1857 Bibliography Footnotes Index.