Template:Did you know nominations/Prairie madness

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The result was: promoted by Ashwin147 (talk) 14:21, 16 April 2013 (UTC).

Prairie madness edit

  • ... that settlers of the American frontier in the 19th century sometimes fell victim to prairie madness, in which social isolation and other hardships of life on the prairie caused them to develop mental illness?

Created/expanded by Vanacoca (talk). Nominated by GabrielF (talk) at 21:45, 10 April 2013 (UTC).

  • Excellent article. Length and timing of expansion are OK; referencing is OK; hook is interesting and cited. Good work. --MelanieN (talk) 16:37, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
P.S. I took the liberty of editing the hook slightly to provide better context. --MelanieN (talk) 17:22, 15 April 2013 (UTC)