Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890 by Pagnamenta, Peter

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

From the 1830s onward, a succession of well-born Britons headed west to the great American wilderness to...
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Author: Peter Pagnamenta
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Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890 by Pagnamenta, Peter

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

¥4,313

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

¥4,313
Author: Peter Pagnamenta
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Peter Pagnamenta
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/23/2013
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780393347081

About the Author
Pagnamenta, Peter: - Peter Pagnamenta is a writer and social historian who lives in London. He is the author of Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman. He lives in London.

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