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Trail of Tears

“Some sixty years from this time, yer people will be taken from their lands, from the bones of their ancestors, and removed to a new place, far from here. Many will die on this journey, so that the path they tread will be called… the trail where they wept.”

Did Jamie change anything? With the knowledge does Chief Bird pass the information down making his tribe the 800 who were not removed during the Trail of Tears?

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Quiz: Outlander Book Knowledge

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Outlander Book Knowledge

Test your knowledge about Outlander

Claire saw the chapel before she married Jamie.

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1. Who did Claire marry at the little Scottish Chapel? Jamie or Frank?

Hairs the issue.

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2. What does Claire find in Black Jack Randall’s cupboard?

They are also a leftie.

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3. Who taught Jamie to sword fight?

It isn’t 5.

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4. Approximately, how many years older than Claire was Frank?

Something that sounds fast.

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5. What was Claire’s rosary made out of?

It is also Jamie’s birthday.

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6. What was the date Claire came through the stones?

Think about when we met these characters.

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7. Whose Bible does Jamie carry with him?

Well Letitia is Colum’s wife….

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8. What is Dougal’s wife’s name?

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9. What is the motto of Clan MacKenzie?

Dougal’s house is called Beannachd.

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10. What is Dougal’s house called in Gaelic?

Normally jovial, he gets serious about Claire being able to actually use the dirk Jamie gave her.

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11. Who teaches Claire to wield a dirk?

Rupert wasn’t around at the time.

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12. Jamie took Laoghaire’s place for punishment at Castle Leoch. What was the man’s name who beat him?

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Recap: 603 Temperance

Fergus worries about his new son’s quality of life when the baby is bullied by superstitious Protestants. Claire performs surgery on Tom’s hand.


This recap is exactly that… a recap of the episode so do not read it unless you want to be spoiled or have seen the episode.

Overall, fantastic episode. We have some different actors/characters really shining this week. Fergus has a scene that made me weep. Marsali’s reactions to Fergus in this episode are perfection and Roger… I have told other fans this: When you first meet Roger you kind of like him but he gets worse before he gets better.

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Boston Tea Party

Major MacDonald arrives with the guns for the Cherokee and news of the Boston Tea Party. It is beginning.

The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. In response, the Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Indigenous Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly. The episode escalated into the American Revolution, becoming an iconic event of American history. Since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773.

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Recap: 602 Allegiance

Jamie struggles with his first request as Indian Agent. Roger presides over an unusual funeral. Marsali gives birth. However, the joy is short lived when a discovery is made.


How did you all like Allegiance? I thought over all it was a good episode. It did seem a little disjointed to me but as I recap let’s see where I stand. Also, feel free to come by and rate the episode in our poll. The great thing about this episode, from a book readers perspective, is that much of the dialogue is actually from the book.

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Recap: 601 Echoes

Jamie’s authority is tested when an old rival from Ardsmuir shows up to settle on the Ridge. Claire finds a new way to cope with the trauma of her assault by Lionel Brown.


We open with a lengthy recap of what has happened previous on Outlander. The best part of this was the quote from A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Great book by the way.

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Outlander Is the Genre-Busting, Convention-Breaking Show We All Need Right Now—Thanks to Its Deliciously Complicated Leading Ladies

Outlander, the genre busting and wildly entertaining Starz series, adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling books, has built a true fandom over its past five seasons. While many of the TV series that inspire deep devotion tend to be—we’ll just come out with it— a little nerdy, and more than a little male-oriented, Outlander is as riveting as it is relatable. And while fans painstakingly unpack episodes, trade theories about plot points and obsess over the show’s historical underpinnings, it’s ultimately a character-driven enterprise. The action hinges on time-travel, and there’s no shortage of romance, but the appeal of the drama is its expertly-drawn characters—especially its female protagonists. Never stereotypical, the series shows women as the multi-dimensional forces they are. “You know, it’s funny, my knee jerk reaction is always that we’re not setting out to make a statement about women,” says executive producer Maril Davis. “We’re just trying to show women as they are, in their most natural, amazing state.”

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Claire Will Unravel in Dark and Intense – Season 6

When we last left Outlander at the end of Season 5, the men of Fraser’s Ridge had freed Claire from her abductors and rapists and Marsali had poisoned one of the men behind the attack, while Bree and Roger failed to travel back to the late 1960’s. Season 6 picks up the thread of increased political and social tensions in the colony of North Carolina as the story is now very close to the start of the American Revolution. Jamie has to appear loyal to the Crown because he was granted Fraser’s Ridge but he knows from Claire, Brianna and Roger that the colonists will eventually rebel and win. 

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Outlander prequel is moving forward

According to many news sources online, Starz is going forward with the prequel of Outlander which will focus on Ellen MacKenize (Jamie’s mother) which will be based on a book Gabaldon is writing on Jamie’s matriarch.

Matthew B. Roberts is returning to write and produce and additions to the spin-offs writers room are apparently in the works.

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Find Out Why Outlander Executive Producer Maril Davis Calls Season 6 ‘a Rollercoaster Ride More Than Any Other Season’

When Outlander returns for its sixth season on Starz beginning Sunday, March 6, fans will finally witness the aftermath of Season 5’s heinous attack on Claire (Caitriona Balfe). What happens next with her and husband Jamie (Sam Heughan) as they deal with the fallout? In a departure from the Diana Gabaldon novel, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, on which Season 6 is based, more focus will be placed on Claire’s struggles to recover and deal with what we would today label PTSD.

“When we read the books, it’s dealt with in little bits and bobs here and there, but she never really deals with it,” Outlander executive producer Maril Davis exclusively tells Parade. “And it felt like such a traumatic experience that it didn’t seem like we could ignore that, and it didn’t seem like we did justice to the character if we did. And so, we really leaned into that. I think the writers did an amazing job with coming up with this coping mechanism for Claire.”

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Caitriona Balfe’s Celtic Conquest from Vanity Faire

As a child, Caitríona Balfe never found it strange when a trip to the dentist or to a clothing store involved driving by British soldiers with machine guns, or having the family car inspected for explosives. There were frequent bomb scares too, around where she grew up in Tydavnet, a small Irish village near the Northern Ireland border, and sometimes on the news she’d hear about a nearby community that had been hit. “It’s such a part of the fabric of your life when you live in those areas,” she says. “It’s really not until you get older that you look back and you realize the craziness of it, or the strangeness of it.”

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