Prairie Fever

Prairie Fever (2013) by Peter Pagnamenta – Duckworth Overlook
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Prairie Fever tells the true and beautifully bittersweet story of two well-bred English sisters who left behind Victorian England’s comforts for the windswept frontier of the American Midwest. In a tale that reads like Little House on the Prairie meets Downton Abbey, Peter Pagnamenta uncovers the astonishing lives of the Frances sisters—Ada and Mary—who braved blizzards, heartbreak, and rattlesnakes in their pursuit of purpose and independence in 19th-century Kansas.

Blending biography, cultural history, and frontier grit, Prairie Fever is a transatlantic story of survival, sisterhood, and stubbornness. Our copy has just enough wear to make it feel like it, too, has survived a Kansas winter.

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Condition like new.

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