This is how a man from Lewis became a cowboy, and outlaw, across the Atlantic and was hidden by Gaelic communities in Canada
It is inspired by the cowboy and the Gaelic community in Quebec who helped him evade capture during the biggest manhunt in Canadian history.
They were part of the Gaelic immigrant community of Lac-Mégantic and Donald was born there in 1858. The family struggled to make a living on their poor homestead so, when he was 20 years old, Donald moved West to learn to be a cowboy, becoming skilled at handling horses and guns. Believing his parents had been cheated, Donald hired a lawyer to try to stop the eviction and when this failed he continued to fight for justice. By this time, the homestead had been sold to new owners who complained of harassment and, when their barn burned down, the cowboy became the sole suspect.whisky
Growing desperate, his would-be captors finally resorted to trickery and pretended to arrange a truce so that Donald could visit his parents. When he emerged again from their cabin, he was ambushed, shot and injured. “But I also just wanted to write an absolute riot of a Western. It’s a raw wild ride through an unforgiving Quebec winter.”
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