A Lady Life in The Rocky Mountains eBook Isabella L Bird
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A Lady Life in The Rocky Mountains eBook Isabella L Bird
Great book on mountain life in the Rockies---if you like this book you will also want to read the following 99-cent similar books:1 My Life Among the Indians (1892)
2. Life in the Far West (1851)
3 Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado from February, 1830, to November, 1835 (1843)
4 Five Years a Captive among the Black-feet Indians ...Endured by John Dixon and His Companions (1858)
5 The War Trail Fort (1921) (Linked Table of Contents)
6 The Chronicles of the Yellowstone: History of the Country Drained by the Yellowstone River, Its Indian Inhabitants, Its First Explorers, the Early Fur Traders and Trappers (1883)
7 Rocky Mountain Life: or, Startling Scenes and Perilous Adventures in the Far West, During an Expedition of Three Years (1857) (Active Table of Contents)
8 Away in the Wilderness, Or, Life Among the Red Indians and Fur-traders of North America (1870) [Illustrated]
9 Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains: Or, The Lost Million Dollar Gold Mine (1917)
10 Seventy Years on the Frontier: Alexander Major's Memoirs of a Lifetime on the Border (1893)
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A Lady Life in The Rocky Mountains eBook Isabella L Bird Reviews
This has become one of my favourite books of late...so much so...that I've now read it three or four times.
Born in 1831 in Yorkshire, England this explorer and travel writer (in letters to her sister) tells of her experiences as a woman alone in the Rocky Mountains in 1873, where she met desperadoes, gunslingers and the early homesteaders who settled the West. She confronted grizzly bears, snowdrifts above the rooftops, and hunger...but still found the time to (apparently) fall in love with Jim Nugent, "Rocky Mountain Jim", a textbook outlaw with one eye and an affinity for violence and poetry. "A man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry" He was shot dead in a gunfight six months after she left the US to return home to England.
Bird visited and wrote about her travels to Australia, The Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), India, Tibet, Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey.
She died in 1904 aged 72.
While it's a legitimate journal of a woman's real life, her skill at conveying what she has seen and experienced results in an autobiographical account that is as evocative as Zane Grey's scenery and characterizations. Her personality comes across clearly, but it is revealed through her focus on that which is outside of herself. Her competence and lack of concern over conditions and situations that would terrify and defeat most modern individuals, even hardened and experienced men, is a lesson for all women. You'll fall in love with Birdie, her faithful and personable horse; and Ring, the dog-best-friend of the sometimes lordly desperado who (I believe, anyway) falls deeply in love with her. Whether she realizes that, I'll leave you to decide.
A caveat for readers who expect historical accounts to reflect Post-Modernist political correctness Don't be put off by some of her commentary early on in the story. For example, she makes a critical evaluation of a group of Native Americans sharing a train ride. Later, however, she equally lauds other Native Americans. Her impressions are based upon what she observes. In the case of the train riders, she is put off by their severe lack of hygiene, being infested with vermin (that means lice, ticks, crabs, etc.). An equal-opportunity critic, she expresses her viewpoints about any individual whom she considers to be engaged in unhealthful or negative behaviors. However, don't be misguided by my review comments here; she is a pro-active, optimistic, and generous minded individual.
I was quite sad when I came to the end of the journal's tale. That's the sign of a truly excellent read. Compelling books are hard to come by, especially ones that are true accounts. This journal is a treasure both for its historical and entertainment value.
Nowadays when you say "lady" you think "weak and too proper". Or I do. So I was not expecting much from this book, just because of its title. I was wrong. There is nothing 'weak and too proper' about Isabella Bird, whose travels in the Colorado Rockies in the late 19th century, before there were roads and ski lifts an all the other conveniences we take for granted, completely captivated me. It is stunning to be a Coloradan surrounded by 'civilization' now, and realize how recently this truly was frontier; even more stunning to find a woman on a horse exploring it on her own, stopping with homesteaders or miners or mountain men, and going on usually all by herself, facing whatever the weather and wild terrain have to offer. I have been adventuresome in my life, but never to the extent Isabella Bird was! To add to the appeal of her narrative (written in the form of letters to her sister back home in England) there is the quality of her writing such superb descriptions of place and persons, of daily life and of unforeseen adventures--magnificent use of evocative and descriptive language, so that one who loves just plain good writing is not disappointed at all! I was so taken with this writer and her adventures here in Colorado that I couldn't bear to finish the book, so allowed myself to read only a few pages a day once I saw the end of the book approaching. But finally it came--it felt like leaving a friend! But then I looked her up just in case she'd written other things--and discovered another six books narrating her travels in other parts of the world--Hawaii, Japan, Kurdistan, Persia and more of America! I bought them all and can breathe easy now and don't have to restrict myself to a few pages a day! (By the way, in case you like to read on , they're all free in that format--I guess because the copyright has run out!)
Great book on mountain life in the Rockies---if you like this book you will also want to read the following 99-cent similar books
1 My Life Among the Indians (1892)
2. Life in the Far West (1851)
3 Life in the Rocky Mountains A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado from February, 1830, to November, 1835 (1843)
4 Five Years a Captive among the Black-feet Indians ...Endured by John Dixon and His Companions (1858)
5 The War Trail Fort (1921) (Linked Table of Contents)
6 The Chronicles of the Yellowstone History of the Country Drained by the Yellowstone River, Its Indian Inhabitants, Its First Explorers, the Early Fur Traders and Trappers (1883)
7 Rocky Mountain Life or, Startling Scenes and Perilous Adventures in the Far West, During an Expedition of Three Years (1857) (Active Table of Contents)
8 Away in the Wilderness, Or, Life Among the Red Indians and Fur-traders of North America (1870) [Illustrated]
9 Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains Or, The Lost Million Dollar Gold Mine (1917)
10 Seventy Years on the Frontier Alexander Major's Memoirs of a Lifetime on the Border (1893)
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