A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains with an Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin 1

About This ePub This ePub improves on the LibGen version with MD5 D85A4FD2590999488A3305F15F51213B [(http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=D85A4FD2590999488A3305F15F51213B) here . It still needs serious code cleaning. It renders fine in the Calibre Viewer, but not very fine in Kidle Previewer. Feel free to further improve the book. The ID string for the present version is "hxa7241 n.v. fork [UL] v 1.0". Please change it according to what you deem your improvement to be [a new edition, a version of the present fork, a version of the trunk, etc.] For more details, see inside the 'About This ePub' section. Book Description In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic account of a truly astounding journey. Introduction, by Daniel J. Boorstin 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 color 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 Lift · 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 Wagon" · 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 Traveling · A Millionaire's Home · Pleasant Park · Perry's Park · Stock-Raising · A Cattle King · The Arkansas Divide · Birdie's Sagacity · Luxury · Monument Park · Deference to Prejudice · A Death Scene · The Manitou · A Loose Shoe · The Ute Pass-Bergens Park · A Settler's Home · Hayden's Divide · Sharp Criticism · Speaking the Truth Letter XI Tarryall Creek · The Red Range · Excelsior · Importunate 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 Newcomer · 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 frostfall · An unfortunate introduction Index This ePub Additions Back Matter About This ePub About This ePub 1st Edition 1879, John Murray, London Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7022845M/A_lady% 27s_life_in_the_Rocky_Mountains) OL7022845M Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/inrockyladyslife00birdrich) inrockyladyslife00birdrich 1st Modern Edition 1960, University of Oklahoma Press Series: The Western Frontier Library Series (Book 14) Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin OCLC (www.worldcat.org/oclc/654948612) 654948612 Revised Edition 1975-12-15, University of Oklahoma Press ISBN (http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/0806113286) 0806113286 Series: The Western Frontier Library Series (Book 14) Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Present Electronic Edition 2007-12-28, 2010-08-27 hxa7241, no version Relation: http://www.hxa.name [from old opf] MD5 (http://libgen.org/book/index.php? md5=D85A4FD2590999488A3305F15F51213B) D85A4FD2590999488A3305F15F51213B N.B. According to the copyright page, probably based on the 1975 revised modern edition. N.B. Page numbers preserved in the text. 2014-05-04, hxa7241 n.v. fork [UL] v 1.0 hxa7241 edition probably represents a page-by-page epub dump of a database software (FoxPro, FileMaker Pro) scanning process in a multi-field format, then saved as stand-alone tabled html files. Merged separate pages, remade book divisions, formatted sections, chapterized, ToC, style consistency. No proofing. Code needs serious cleaning. Index needs back-linking into the text. N.B. Source page numbers preserved in the text. Book Description In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic account of a truly astounding journey. [(http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/14/a%20lady%20s%20life%20in%20the%20rocky% 20mountains) University of Oklahoma Press ] Editorial Reviews Review In 1854, at the age of twenty-two, Isabella Bird left England and began traveling as a cure for her ill health. Over the years she explored Asia, the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, and both the Eastern and Western United States. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains contains letters written to her sister during her six- month journey through the Colorado Rockies in 1873. Traveling alone, usually on horseback, often with no clear idea of where she will spend the night in what is mostly uninhabited wilderness, she covers over a thousand miles, most of it during the winter months. A well-educated woman who had known a comfortable life, she thinks nothing of herding cattle at a hard gallop, falling through ice, getting lost in snowstorms, and living in a cabin where the temperatures are well below zero and her ink freezes even as she writes. She befriends desperados and climbs 14,000 foot mountains, ready for any adventure that allows her to see the unparalleled beauty of nature. Her rare complaints have more to do with having to ride side-saddle while in town than with the conditions she faces. An awe-inspiring woman, she is also a talented writer who brings to life Colorado of more than one hundred years ago, when today's big cities were only a small collection of frame houses, and while and beautiful areas were still largely untouched. --Erica Bauermeister [(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806113286) Amazon ] About This ePub This ePub improves on the LibGen version with MD5 D85A4FD2590999488A3305F15F51213B [[here](http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=D85A4FD2590999488A3305F15F51213B). It still needs serious code cleaning. It renders fine in the Calibre Viewer, but not very fine in Kidle Previewer. Feel free to further improve the book. The ID string for the present version is "hxa7241 n.v. fork [UL] v 1.0". Please change it according to what you deem your improvement to be [a new edition, a version of the present fork, a version of the trunk, etc.] For more details, see inside the 'About This ePub' section. Book Description In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic account of a truly astounding journey. A cosmopolitan, middle-aged Englishwoman touring the Rocky Mountains in 1873, Isabella Bird had embarked upon a trip that called for as much stamina as would have been expected of an explorer or anthropologist and she was neither! Possessing a prodigious amount of curiosity and a huge appetite for traveling, she journeyed later in life to India, Tibet, China, Japan, Korea, and Canada and wrote eight successful books about her adventures. In this volume, she paints an intimate picture of the "Wild West," writing eloquently of flora and fauna, isolated settlers and assorted refugees from civilization, vigilance committees and lynchings, and crude table manners yet a gentle civility even chivalry among the men she encountered in the wilderness. Thoughtfully written, this captivating narrative provides a vibrant account of a bygone era and the people that forever changed the face of the frontier. Women were scarce enough in the West of the late nineteenth 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 Isabella Bird made this extended tour of the Rocky Mountain area of Colorado guided by desperado Mountain Jim. This book contains letters to her sister detailing her experiences during this travel. -- from back cover Born in 1831, Isabella Bird, 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.