Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade

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Purchase Subscription prices and ordering Short-term Access To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above. Reading these two books in tandem is a reminder, if one were needed, that all is relational. Considered in isolation, each work offers illuminating insights into imperial hunting culture in the American West.

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Benemann is a little too dogged in pursuit of same-sex love: Rico is a tad instrumentalist in her analysis of how elite identities were fashioned on the western frontier. Miller to the Rocky Mountains in the late s. The study moves onto thinner ice, though, when Benemann tries to generalise more widely. His theory that the Rocky Mountain fur trade held special attraction for men seeking licence for heterodox sexualities seems a stretch, not least in light of extensive scholarship on fur-trade intimacies and marriage practices.

Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade

In the regions where Drummond travelled many traders would have had wives and partners of Indigenous, African, or Mexican heritage. No doubt a proportion were keeping same-sex intimacies quiet, but there is not enough evidence here to convince the reader that the Rocky Mountain fur trade was a hotbed. Many are well known -- Buffalo Bill Cody, Theodore Roosevelt the comparison with his less illustrious brother is instructive , and Isabella Bird, the sole woman in the field -- and others new to most readers. Training in British history allows her to delve usefully into the context of elite culture there and on the east coast of America, and to put her finger on the class and racial anxieties of men who found their privilege under increasing threat at home.