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Overview
The American West of the late nineteenth century had seen its share of foreign travelers but none could compare to Isabella Bird, the archetypal Victorian Lady Traveler. The daughter of an English clergyman, Bird was on her way back from Hawaii, which she had spent nearly a year exploring on horseback, when she decided to stop off to investigate the Wild West.
Having suffered from ill health as a child, Bird therefore threw herself into a life of open air and exercise as a means of recovery. "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" is told through letters the intrepid author wrote to her sister in the winter of 1873 regarding this equestrian sojourn during which she explored the magnificent unspoiled wilderness of Colorado, ascended the highest mountains, observed the abundant wildlife, and observed life on the remote frontier in all its phases.
Bird's quest for equestrian adventure was to turn her into a compulsive traveller and eventually take her on other equestrian journeys to equally inaccessible places including Persia, Tibet, Japan, Korea and Morocco. Plus she was also the first woman ever to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England.
Yet this remains the most popular book the prolific author, and indefatigable traveler, ever penned. Enormously entertaining and amply illustrated, "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" remains a vivid account of an astounding equestrian journey.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9788027308767 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | E-Artnow |
| Publication date: | 12/30/2020 |
| Pages: | 114 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.24(d) |
About the Author
Isabella Bird was a nineteenth century English explorer,writer,and natural historian whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographical Society.In 1879 she visited Malaya, Singapore, Indo-China and Hong Kong, writing 23 letters home to her sister Hennie in Scotland, and naming the collection The Golden Chersonese, the ancient Greek name for the Malay Peninsula.
Table of Contents
| Letter I. | ||
| Lake Tahoe | ||
| Morning in San Francisco | ||
| Dust | ||
| A Pacific mail train | ||
| Digger Indians | ||
| Cape Horn | ||
| A mountain hotel | ||
| A pioneer | ||
| A Truckee livery stable | ||
| A mountain stream | ||
| Finding a bear | ||
| Tahoe | ||
| Letter II. | ||
| A lady's "get-up" | ||
| Grizzly bears | ||
| The "Gem of the Sierras" | ||
| A tragic tale | ||
| A carnival of colour | ||
| Letter III. | ||
| A Temple of Morpheus | ||
| Utah | ||
| A "God-forgotten" town | ||
| A distressed couple | ||
| Dog villages | ||
| A temperance colony | ||
| A Colorado inn | ||
| The bug pest | ||
| Fort Collins | ||
| Letter IV. | ||
| A plague of flies | ||
| A melancholy charioteer | ||
| The Foot Hills | ||
| A mountain boarding-house | ||
| A dull life | ||
| "Being agreeable" | ||
| Climate of Colorado | ||
| Soroche and snakes | ||
| Letter V. | ||
| A dateless day | ||
| "Those hands of yours" | ||
| A Puritan | ||
| Persevering shiftlessness | ||
| The house-mother | ||
| Family worship | ||
| A grim Sunday | ||
| A "thick-skulled Englishman" | ||
| A morning call | ||
| Another atmosphere | ||
| The Great Lone Land | ||
| "Ill found" | ||
| A log camp | ||
| Bad footing for horses | ||
| Accidents | ||
| Disappointment | ||
| Letter VI. | ||
| A bronco mare | ||
| An accident | ||
| Wonderland | ||
| A sad story | ||
| The children of the Territories | ||
| Hard greed | ||
| Halcyon hours | ||
| Smartness | ||
| Old-fashioned prejudices | ||
| The Chicago colony | ||
| Good luck | ||
| Three notes of admiration | ||
| A good horse | ||
| The St. Vrain | ||
| The Rocky Mountains at last | ||
| "Mountain Jim" | ||
| A death hug | ||
| Estes Park | ||
| Letter VII. | ||
| Personality of Long's Peak | ||
| "Mountain Jim" | ||
| Lake of the Lilies | ||
| A silent forest | ||
| The camping ground | ||
| "Ring" | ||
| A lady's bower | ||
| Dawn and sunrise | ||
| A glorious view | ||
| Links of diamonds | ||
| The ascent of the Peak | ||
| The "Dog's Life" | ||
| Suffering from thirst | ||
| The descent | ||
| The bivouac | ||
| Letter VIII. | ||
| Estes Park | ||
| Big game | ||
| "Parks" in Colorado | ||
| Magnificent scenery | ||
| Flowers and pines | ||
| An awful road | ||
| Our log cabin | ||
| Griffith Evans | ||
| A miniature world | ||
| Our topics | ||
| A night alarm | ||
| A skunk | ||
| Morning glories | ||
| Daily routine | ||
| The panic | ||
| "Wait for the waggon" | ||
| A musical evening | ||
| Letter IX. | ||
| "Please ma'ams" | ||
| A desperado | ||
| A cattle hunt | ||
| The muster | ||
| A mad cow | ||
| A snow-storm | ||
| Snowed up | ||
| Birdie | ||
| The Plains | ||
| A prairie schooner | ||
| Denver | ||
| A find | ||
| Plum Creek | ||
| "Being agreeable" | ||
| Snowbound | ||
| The grey mare | ||
| Letter X. | ||
| A white world | ||
| Bad travelling | ||
| A millionaire's home | ||
| Pleasant Park | ||
| Perry's Park | ||
| Stock-raising | ||
| A cattle ring | ||
| The Arkansas Divide | ||
| Birdie's sagacity | ||
| Luxury | ||
| Monument Park | ||
| Deference to prejudice | ||
| A death scene | ||
| The Manitou | ||
| A loose shoe | ||
| The Ute Pass | ||
| Bergen's Park | ||
| A settler's home | ||
| Hayden's Divide | ||
| Sharp criticism | ||
| Speaking the truth | ||
| Letter XI. | ||
| Tarryall Creek | ||
| The Red Range | ||
| Excelsior | ||
| Unfortunate pedlars Snow and heat | ||
| A bison calf | ||
| Deep drifts | ||
| South Park | ||
| The Great Divide | ||
| Comanche Bill | ||
| Difficulties | ||
| Hall's Gulch | ||
| A Lord Dundreary | ||
| Ridiculous fears | ||
| Letter XII. | ||
| Deer Valley | ||
| Lynch law | ||
| Vigilance Committees | ||
| The Silver Spruce | ||
| Taste and abstinence | ||
| The Whisky Fiend | ||
| Smartness | ||
| Turkey Creek Canyon | ||
| The Indian Problem | ||
| Public rascality | ||
| Friendly meetings | ||
| The way to the Golden City | ||
| A rising settlement | ||
| Clear Creek Canyon | ||
| Staging | ||
| Swearing | ||
| A mountain town | ||
| Letter XIII. | ||
| The blight of mining | ||
| Green Lake | ||
| Golden City | ||
| Benighted | ||
| Vertigo | ||
| Boulder Canyon | ||
| Financial straits | ||
| A hard ride | ||
| The last cent | ||
| A bachelor's home | ||
| "Mountain Jim" | ||
| A surprise | ||
| A night arrival | ||
| Making the best of it | ||
| Scanty fare | ||
| Letter XIV. | ||
| A dismal ride | ||
| A desperado's tale | ||
| "Lost! Lost! Lost!" | ||
| Winter glories | ||
| Solitude | ||
| Hard times | ||
| Intense cold | ||
| A pack of wolves | ||
| The beaver dams | ||
| Ghastly scenes | ||
| Venison steaks | ||
| Our evenings | ||
| Letter XV. | ||
| A whisky slave | ||
| The pleasures of monotony | ||
| The mountain lion | ||
| "Another mouth to feed" | ||
| A tiresome boy | ||
| An outcast | ||
| Thanksgiving Day | ||
| The new-comer | ||
| A literary humbug | ||
| Milking a dry cow | ||
| Trout-fishing | ||
| A snow-storm | ||
| A desperado's den | ||
| Letter XVI. | ||
| A harmonious home | ||
| Intense cold | ||
| A purple sun | ||
| A grim jest | ||
| A perilous ride | ||
| Frozen eyelids | ||
| Longmount | ||
| The pathless prairie | ||
| Hardships of emigrant life | ||
| A trapper's advice | ||
| The Little Thompson | ||
| Evans and "Jim" | ||
| Letter XVII. | ||
| Woman's Mission | ||
| The last morning | ||
| Crossing the St. Vrain | ||
| Miller | ||
| The St. Vrain again | ||
| Crossing the prairie | ||
| "Jim's" dream | ||
| "Keeping strangers" | ||
| The inn kitchen | ||
| A reputed child-eater | ||
| Notoriety | ||
| A quiet dance | ||
| "Jim's" resolve | ||
| The frost-fall | ||
| An unfortunate introduction |
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