Nature’s Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West by Monica Rico (review)

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Reviewed by: Nature’s Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West by Monica Rico Chuck Vollan Nature’s Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West. By Monica Rico. New Haven ct: Yale University, 2013. ix + 278pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 cloth. Monica Rico is an associate professor of history at Lawrence University who focuses on gender and environment in the American West. Following in the steps of Robert Athearn, Ray Allen Billington, and Robert Earl Pomeroy, she brings a linguistic orientation to Western American historical study. Rico argues that the upper-class English who came to America, briefly or permanently, [End Page 217] adopted Western American clothing and activities, particularly hunting, as an attempt to preserve their sense of identity as the landed gentry lost power and status in Great Britain. Furthermore, they formed a transatlantic, racially defined network of like-minded, self-consciou

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