First established in 1844 by Edward and Robert Leake as a sheep sheering station, the Leake brothers named the settlement after Glen Coe, Scotland where the infamous Massacre of Glencoe took place in 1692.
More recently Glencoe was the subject of Eric Linklater's 1957 story "The Masks of Purpose", and David Clement-Davies's "Fire Bringer", in which the region is called the "Valley Of Weeping".
She too favoured historical subjects from the Highlands, such as Highlander defending his Family at the Massacre of Glencoe.
In 1839 Glencoe, or the Fate of the Macdonalds, was privately printed, and in 1840 it was produced at the Haymarket.
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The village is on the site of the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692, in which the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by forces acting on behalf of the government of King William II following the Glorious Revolution.
It is a re-telling of the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe, and focuses on a romantic relationship between Catriona of Clan Campbell and Alasdair Og MacDonald of Clan Donald, each from rival clans.