The High Hole in Four: S.R. Crockett’s Golfing Ambition
When S.R. Crockett wanted to share his golfing triumph in October 1896, he wrote to Dan Mowat, a Glasgow bookseller with whom he shared interests in books and golf.
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In Galloway’s Woods and Trees
Discover how S.R. Crockett’s fiction preserves Galloway’s lost woodland heritage and offers prescient environmental insights for our own time.
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No small trees or small stories…
The Clogger and the Silver Birch: S.R. Crockett’s Comedy of Perspective In Raiderland, (1904) Crockett writes: Carlinwark is hardly a loch. I have heard it called a duck-pond. Well, if so, blessed be the ducks that swim in that pearl…
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The Black Water Remembers:
Explore S.R. Crockett’s Gothic masterpiece: a tale of betrayal, class exploitation, and supernatural justice set in Victorian Galloway’s dark waters.
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Hefted to Galloway
This 2016 article from the Galloway Raiders archive explores the profound connection between nineteenth-century Scottish author S. R. Crockett (1859-1914) and his native Galloway.