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Horace Plunkett in America: An Irish Aristocrat on the Wyoming Range (Western Frontiersmen Series)

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When Horace Plunkett left Britain for the American West in 1879, in search of relief for lung problems, he launched a ranching career in Wyoming that influenced the cattle industry and altered the course of his own life. Previous biographers have studied his career in British politics and his involvement within the agricultural cooperative movement. Lawrence M. Woods now offers a detailed take a look at Plunkett’s American years.

This is the first book to portray Plunkett as a tremendous figure within the western-range cattle industry, unearthing new evidence that reveals how he mastered the microeconomics of ranching. Woods brings his own business and legal acumen to the narrative to describe how, whilst other Britons failed to find fortune within the West, Plunkett continually pursued new business arrangements at the same time as navigating the thickets of American law.

Woods also shows that Plunkett’s influence carried well past the range. In Washington, D.C., he promoted his ideas on agricultural education and the rural cooperative movement, earning him the ear of President Theodore Roosevelt. And when the Great War broke out, Plunkett functioned as one of those private diplomat, carrying messages from side to side between the administration of President Woodrow Wilson and the British government.

Horace Plunkett in America draws on Plunkett’s extensive diaries and on American sources hitherto unexplored by previous biographers to disclose more of the man than has ever been known. Featuring three dozen illustrations, this is a definitive take a look at the American chapter of a distinguished career.


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