British settlers endured frontier discomfort that foreigners improved with elegance.
Evidence
It is a moral, hard, unloving, unlovely, unrelieved, unbeautified, grinding life. These people live in a discomfort and lack of ease and refinement which seems only possible to people of British stock. A “foreigner” fills his cabin with ingenuities and elegancies, and a Hawaiian or South Sea Islander makes his grass house both pretty and tasteful. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 155