Sons of the Wolf is the story of the Gregarach or Clan Gregor and their ongoing battle with the Clan Campbell. The book tells the story of a horrible time when murder and plotting to hurt neighbors was a way of life in Scotland. The Campbells were out to exterminate the Clan Gregor and they used any means at their disposal to do so. An example is shown in this excerpt:
While the Campbells grew, the Gregarach weakened. They possessed no legal charter to the lands which they occupied in Glenorchy and so were reduced to the status of tenants at will. Patrick, son of John the One-eyed, was forced to sell the lands of Auchinrevach in Strathfillan to Campbell of Glenorchy who thereby obtained a toehold in Breadalbane. Only in Glenstrae was the MacGregor chief a legal tenant of the Earl of Argyll - a situation which, if it enabled him to escape the predations of Campbell of Glenorchy, nevertheless put him at the disposal of the more powerful MacCailein Mor. However, as long as the clan remained united under the chief, the MacGregors were able to defend their lands with a strong hand. It became Campbell policy to seek to divide the clan.

Early in the 16th century, a younger son of MacGregor of Glenorchy called Dughall Cia Mor (Big Brown Dugall) ravished and then married a daughter of Colin Campbell of Glenorchy. Such rude courtship was not so uncommon in that time and highland reivers would regularly lift some women along with the beasts.(Sir Walter Scott would recall a highland woman telling him that her mother "had never seen her father till the night he brought her back from the Lennox with ten head of cattle and there had not been a happier couple in the country")

The Campbells were politically reconciled to the match. Dughall Cia Mor was known for his energy and ambition. They encouraged his aspirations and although admitting that the claim was "not righteous", declared him to be the new chief of the Gregarach in the fair certainty that this would split the clan. They then set about the extermination of the true heirs.

I can not imagine the clans wars being any more bloody or horrible than the ones described so very well by Ronald Williams. I can not say I liked this book but I learned and for that I grant it a strong three thistles.

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