A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher:
Published: 1893
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780806113289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen were scarce enough in the West of the late nineteenth century, and a middle-aged English lady traveling alone, by horseback, was a real phenomenon. It was during the autumn and early winter of 1873 that Isabella Bird made this extended tour of the Rocky Mountain area of Colorado guided by desperado Mountain Jim. This book contains letters to her sister detailing her experiences during this travel. -- from back cover
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) (Illustrated) by Isabella Bird
Author: Isabella Bird
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-04-03
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781530874859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in 1831, Isabella, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode on her spirited horse Birdie through the American 'Wild West', a terrain only recently opened to pioneer settlement. Here she met Rocky Mountain Jim, her 'dear (one-eyed) desperado', fond of poetry and whisky - 'a man any women might love, but no sane woman would marry'. He helped her climb the 'American Matterhorn' and round up cattle on horseback
Adventures in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780141032092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by Penguin's innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever written- from Isabella Bird's exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and cowboys in the Rocky Mountains to Marco Polo's mystified reports of a giant bird that eats elephants during his voyage along the coasts of India. Each beautifully packaged volume offers a way to see the world anew, to rediscover great civilizations and legends, vast deserts and unspoiled mountain ranges, unusual flora and strange new creatures, and much more.
Letters to Henrietta
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781555535544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.
Steep Trails
Author: John Muir
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The papers brought together in this volume are arranged in chronological sequence. They span a period of twenty-nine years of Muir's life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation." -- Publisher's description.
An Anthology of Women's Travel Writings
Author: Shirley Foster
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780719050183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom eccentric, to cautious, to conventional, An anthology of Women's Travel Writing aims to challenge stereotypes of women travelers by presenting a range of possible forms of writing and new archetypes of female travelers. These diverse writings also attempt to confront the textual problems which result from both writing and traveling as a woman, such as the depiction of other women, the representation of spatial relations, and the relationship to the adventure hero narrative.
Reaching Rocky Mountain Jim
Author: Kari August
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03-10
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780991546602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Gripping story""This is one of those stories that grab your attention and holds it right to the very end." - Amazon Reviewer In 1873, James Nugent, better known as Rocky Mountain Jim, is a hunter and trapper in Estes Park, a settlement just forming in the Colorado Territory. Scarred not only physically from a vicious grizzly bear attack, but emotionally from previous war experiences, he now lives alone in his cabin. When strong-willed Englishwoman, Isabella Bird, visits the area, and Jim acts as her guide in a treacherous ascent up Longs Peak Mountain, an unlikely but undeniable attraction develops between them. Complicating Jim's life further is powerful Lord Dunraven, who schemes to turn the region into his own private game preserve. Jim struggles to keep Estes Park safe from Dunraven's greed while fighting for a commitment from Isabella.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Bird
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-11-13
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book, by Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The book is a compilation of letters that Isabella Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta. In 1872, Isabella left Britain, going first to Australia, then to Hawaii, which she refers to as the Sandwich Islands. In 1873 she travelled to Colorado, then the Colorado Territory. After living a time in Hawaii, she takes a boat, to San Francisco. She passed the area of Lake Tahoe, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to ultimate Estes Park, Colorado, also elsewhere in and near the Rocky Mountains of the Colorado Territory. Early in Colorado, she met Rocky Mountain Jim, described as a desperado, but with whom she got along quite well. She described him as, "He is a man whom any woman might love but no sane woman would marry." She was the first white woman to stand atop Longs Peak, Colorado, pointing out that Jim "dragged me up, like a bale of goods, by sheer force of muscle." Rocky Mountain Jim treated her quite well, and it is sad to note, he was shot to death, seven months later. After many other adventures, Isabella Bird ultimately took a train, east. Upon publication, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains proved an "instant bestseller" and is still considered to be her best work.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella L. Bird
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781420965032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published serially and then into a book in 1879, "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" is one of the many accounts of Isabella L. Bird's amazing travels and adventures. Born in Yorkshire, England in 1831, Bird was never formally educated and was often sickly as a child, but she was an avid reader and loved the outdoors. In 1854, at the age of twenty-two, she left a comfortable life in England for her first trip abroad to America. She fell in love with discovering new places and defied tradition while undertaking grand adventures as an unmarried woman. Bird went onto travel to Australia and Hawaii, while publishing several accounts of her experiences, before finding her way to Colorado. "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains", her fourth publication and her most famous, contains the account of six months of her travels in 1873 through the rugged terrain of the Colorado Rockies. The book is based upon her colorful letters sent back home to her sister and the account relates the many hardships of the great western frontier, the unique characters she meets, and the incredible natural world she found in the newly settled western territories. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
