| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest. By Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. x, 269 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2455-1.)

Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. gives William Dunbar (1750–1810) his full due in this well- researched and clearly written biography. We learn that Dunbar was to the Scottish manor born and possessed every advantage wealth and high station could bestow on a young man. At King's College, he was brought face to face with the Scottish Enlightenment, explaining his lifelong passion for science. Dunbar seemed to have everything, in fact, except priority in his father's will. At twenty-one, he saw the family titles and property holdings go to his half brother, Alexander. But rather than settle with his reduced place in life, Dunbar resolved to emigrate to America to re-create, DeRosier argues, what primogeniture had denied him at home. In 1771, he arrived in Philadelphia, where he met an acquaintance of the family, fellow Scot John Ross (and later Ross's son Alexander), both of whom helped him get started first as a trader on the trans-Appalachian frontier and then as a planter in the deep South, where Dunbar sank deep roots.

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