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Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890 Hardcover - 2012

by Peter Pagnamenta

The extraordinary story of the British aristocracy's encounter with American frontier life in the 19th century.


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From the 1830s onward, a succession of well-born Britons headed west to the great American wilderness to find adventure and fulfillment. They brought their dogs, sporting guns, valets, and all the attitudes and prejudices of their class. Prairie Fever explores why the West had such a strong romantic appeal for them at a time when their inherited wealth and passion for sport had no American equivalent.

In fascinating and often comic detail, the author shows how the British behaved--and what the fur traders, hunting guides, and ordinary Americans made of them--as they crossed the country to see the Indians, hunt buffalo, and eventually build cattle empires and buy up vast tracts of the West. But as British blue bloods became American landowners, they found themselves attacked and reviled as "land vultures" and accused of attempting a new colonization. In a final denouement, Congress moved against the foreigners and passed a law to stop them from buying land.

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  • Title Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890
  • Author Peter Pagnamenta
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition, 1st
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 2012-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780393072396 / 0393072398
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.4 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.) - History - To 1848, Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012000094
  • Dewey Decimal Code 978.02

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/01/2012, Page 42
  • Choice, 01/01/2013, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2012, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 04/01/2012, Page 85
  • New York Times Book Review, 07/08/2012, Page 22
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/06/2012, Page 48
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