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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
By Isabella Bird
A travel book describing Isabella Bird's 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The book is a compilation of letters Isabella wrote to her sister, Henrietta. Early in Colorado, she met Rocky Mountain Jim, described as a desperado, but with whom she got along quite well. She was the first white woman to stand atop Longs Peak, Colorado, pointing out that Jim "dragged me up, like a bale of goods, by sheer force of muscle." Many more adventures followed…
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