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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
Women were scarce enough in the West of the late 19th century, and a middle aged English lady traveling alone, by horseback, was a real phenomenon.
It was during the autumn and early winter of 1873 that she made this extended tour of the Rocky Mountain area of Colorado, when she was on her way back to England from the Sandwich Islands.
What she called no region for tourists and women is today a popular resort, though some of the back trails retain their inaccessibility and wild aspect.
She climbed Longs Peak, then traveled through Estes Park, the mining areas, on down Boulder Canyon to Longmont, through the Big Thompson and St. Vrain canyons, and then on to Denver.
Wearing Hawaiian dress and mounted on Birdie, her borrowed pony, she was guided by desperado Mountain Jim, who entertained her with recitations of poetry and cultivated conversation.
She stayed in mountain cabins, viewed a world of vigilance committees, lynchings, and desperadoes quick on the trigger, and noted everywhere that improbable combination of opposites which was the American West.
In its simple and disarming style, it is a great piece of reporting on a rugged frontier. - San Francisco Chronicle
CONDITION: Soft cover, used lightly, 136 pages, 1975
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