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a ladys life in the rocky mountains

by isabella l isabella lucy bird

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Books » Bird, Isabella L. » (Isabella Lucy),1831-1904

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"A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella L Bird (1831 - 1904) represents a series of the author’s letters to her sister, written during her journey to Colorado. In a six-month period of time she covered over a thousand miles alone, riding a horse, often without any appointed destination. The book is actually a detailed record of this fascinating experience filled with beautiful, vivid descriptions of the scenery, the people she met, their way of life. Among others was "Rocky Mountain Jim" Nugent, a rough man, whom she portrayed as an "awful looking a ruffian as one could see”, but who became her guide and companion, and appears in the book in a romantic outlook. A well brought-up young lady, she rode through the American West, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, climbed mountains and helped with grazing.

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...the men have no bar- rooms to sit in, I observed that Greeley was asleep at an hour when other places were beginning their revebies. Nature is niggardly, and living is coarse and rough, the merest necessaries of hardy life being all that can be thought of in this stage of existence. ;My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bigger than a cabin, with only a canvas partition. It was very hot, and every place was thick with black flies. The English landlady had just lost her " help, " and was in a great fuss, so that I helped her to get supper ready, 36 A lady's LIFE IN letter Jil, Its cliief features were greasiness and black flies Twenty men in working clothes fed and went out again, " nobody speaking to nobody. " The landlady introduced me to a Vermont settler who lives in the " Foot Hills, " who was very kind and took a great deal of...