title: The Highland Clans
author: Iain Moncreiffe
description: An account of the Scottish clans, their history and heritage, genealogy, relics, and homelands written by one the great Scottish eccentrics, Sir Iain Moncrieffe of the Ilk.
zlib_text: **Highland Wolf**
  
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  Lois Greiman
  
    
  
  Copyright © 1997, Lois Greiman
  
    
    
  
   _To Janet Wright, who taught me the intrinsic value of wild flowers and tin
  roofs, who wasn't too busy for horseback picnics and wild bouts of giggling.
  Thanks for being there for me, Jan. If every child had a big sister like you,
  the world would be a kinder place._
  
   _ **Prologue**_
  
   **In the year of our Lord, 1509**
  
    
  
  “I say we storm Firthport and bring me son home." Dugald MacAulay's eyes
  blazed as he addressed the room at large.
  
  "Do ye ken where he is kept then?" Roman Forbes remained seated, quiet as the
  wolf for which he was named.
  
  "Nay! I ken na, but I am na so daft that I canna find me own firstborn. And if
  the Forbeses are too scairt ta go with me, me and mine will go alone."
  
  "Yer other sons." Leith Forbes nodded as he rose to his feet. He was a big
  man, even more powerful than the day he had become the lord of his clan. "They
  are a brave pair."
  
  "Aye." Roderic was 