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Loading... Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890by Peter Pagnamenta
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Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo. No library descriptions found. |
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The chapters chronicling the role of early British entrepreneurs and sportsmen in romancing the region to their countrymen and inspiring them to follow in their footsteps are particularly strong, as is the “epilogue” that chronicles the American reaction in the late nineteenth century to what was perceived as a British attempt to recreate its system of property landlordism in the American West. All in all, a well-written, well-paced, and eminently readable book. ( )