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RECORD NUMBER: 7 OF 468Main Title | A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / | |||||||||||
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Author | Bird, Isabella L. | |||||||||||
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1960 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 00949342 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0806113286; 9780806113289 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Frontier and pioneer life--Rocky Mountains ; West (US)--Description and travel ; Women--Rocky Mountains--Biography ; Estes Park (Colo) ; Colorado--Estes Park ; United States, West | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Bird, Isabella L--(Isabella Lucy),--1831-1904 | |||||||||||
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Collation | xxiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. | |||||||||||
Contents Notes | In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 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--Publisher description. |