‘I Was Well Pleased with Our Sport among the Buffalo’: Big-Game Hunters, Travel Writing, and Cultural Imperialism in the British North American West, 1847-72

This article is a study of British cultural imperialism at work in the British North American West. By analyzing how how British big-game hunters brought their culturally mediated perspectives to bear on the colonial landscape, it examines the way they used their travel and exploration narratives to express imperialist ideology. Abstract: Cet article est une etude de l’imperialisme culturel britannique a l’ceuvre dans l’Ouest de l’Amerique du nord britannique. En analysant comment les chasseurs de gros gibier firent peser sur le paysage colonial des points de vue decoulant de leur culture, il examine la facon dont ces chasseurs se servaient de leurs recits de voyage et d’exploration pour exprimer leur ideologie imperialiste.