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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Bird, Isabella L.

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ISBN10: 0486428036
ISBN13: 9780486428031
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Apr 4 2003
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.38 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
A cosmopolitan, middle-aged Englishwoman touring the Rocky Mountains in 1873, Isabella Bird had embarked upon a trip that called for as much stamina as would have been expected of an explorer or anthropologist -- and she was neither! Possessing a prodigious amount of curiosity and a huge appetite for traveling, she journeyed later in life to India, Tibet, China, Japan, Korea, and Canada and wrote eight successful books about her adventures. In this volume, she paints an intimate picture of the Wild West, writing eloquently of flora and fauna, isolated settlers and assorted refugees from civilization, vigilance committees and lynchings, and crude table manners yet a gentle civility -- even chivalry -- among the men she encountered in the wilderness. Thoughtfully written, this captivating narrative provides a vibrant account of a bygone era and the people that forever changed the face of the frontier.

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