A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Volume 14) by Isabella Lucy Bird

She has the distinction of being the first woman to become a member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892. Generations: Isabella Bird and John Muir are from the Gilded Generation. These letters are filled with beautiful, vivid descriptions of the scenery, the people she encountered, the way of life, and a mountain man named Jim Nugent, that was as rough as they come, but a complete gentleman with Ms. Based upon her letters to her sister this account relates the many hardships of the great western frontier in the pioneer days as well as the awesome beauty of nature she found in the western territories. the quiet beach life, and the pale blue masses of the mountains of the. 'A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains' is the account of six months of those travels in 1873 through the rugged terrain of the Colorado Rockies. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains details this fascinating account of her travels through a series of letters written to her sister, Henrietta. BirdTravels of a Lady in the Interior of. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her trek through the Rocky Mountains.

Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. A world traveler, Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains.

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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Volume 14) by Isabella Lucy Bird