A Lady''s Life in the Rocky Mountains

By: Isabella L. Bird

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Paperback | 8 July 1982 | Edition Number 1

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''There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird'' SPECTATOR

''Venture deep into the Colorado wilderness, and you will find her long-lasting legacy in the community of people choosing to live a life without limits'' RUBY WAX, GUARDIAN

''This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey'' DERVLA MURPHY, IRISH TIMES

Born 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. A year later she took a solo trip from San Francisco to the Rocky Mountains.

''I dreamt of bears so vividly I woke with a furry death-hug at the my throat, but feeling quite refreshed.'' The intrepid journeys of the indefatigable Miss Bird are relayed here in the delightful letters she wrote to her sister. They tell of ''truly grand'' isolated wilderness and abundant wildlife, of small remote townships of her encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves and grizzly bears and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers.

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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

A lady's "get-up"
Grizzly bears
The "Gem of the Sierras"
A tragic tale
A carnival of colour

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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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