A Lady.s Life in the Rocky Mountains. Letters of Personal Adventure in 1873

A great lady traveller& 39;s best known workIsabella Bird was born in 1831 in Cheshire, England became one of a distinguished group of female travellers famous in the nineteenth century-a time when it was considered that a lady& 39;s place should be confined to the home. Isabella travelled and explored the world extensively and became a notable writer and natural historian. This book, her fourth and arguably both her best and best known, concerns a journey of 800 miles through the Rocky Mountains. Isabella made the trip on horseback, using a conventional saddle. The American west was still wild in 1873 and Isabella& 39;s accounts of the landscape and its frontier& 39;s folk are important historical records. Particularly interesting is her relationship with her& 39;dear desperado,& 39; the justifiably named Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent who was shot dead a year after their acquaintance.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.