"Youngquist was thrust into a new culture 'without knowing the language, without education & without a trade.' He became an expert horseman & cowboy, moved from ranch to ranch in Nebraska, Nevada & Wyoming. His memoir has the authentic flavor of one who was there...& updates Andy Adams' classic LOG OF A COWBOY. He gives the readers his youthful memories without existential baggage, in a spirit as youthful & naive as the young greenhorn himself."--NEW LETTERS, Spring, 1990. "Youngquist gives us a firsthand glimpse of life on the range as seen by an optimistic, romantic youth."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, 1-12-90. "AMERICA FEVER...is an exciting & colorful story, told with verve yet with a solid sense of the hard realities of life in the Great West. Youngquist's real-life recollections reaffirm in exhilarating fashion the sheer sense of freedom, challenge & excitement of the wide open spaces under the big Western sky."--Prof. H. Arnold Barton. "An engaging contribution to the annals of the settlement of the West."--THE KIRKUS REVIEWS, 1-1-90.