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A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains

By Isabella L. Bird

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
1108003834, 9781108003834
Google Books ID
GGMJQAAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10508592 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - History
Edition
Reprint
Pages
321\321
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

After the success of The Englishwoman in America (also reissued in this series), the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831-1904) continued her travels - first to Scotland, then to Australia and Hawaii - before returning to the United States and taking up residence in what was then the newest state, Colorado. Her adventures here - recorded as letters to her sister which she artlessly tells the reader were never intended for publication - included riding alone across the prairie, trying to help a family dying of cholera in the face of indifference from the local inhabitants, a sight of the invalids who were coming to Denver in huge numbers to be cured by the mountain air, and an encounter (if it was nothing more) with that western archetype, the one-eyed, romantic, courteous, poetry-declaiming outlaw, who by the following year was 'in a dishonoured grave, with a rifle bullet in his brain'.

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