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Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760763131
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780141032092
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Adventures in the Rocky Mountains written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Penguin's innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever written- from Isabella Bird's exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and cowboys in the Rocky Mountains to Marco Polo's mystified reports of a giant bird that eats elephants during his voyage along the coasts of India. Each beautifully packaged volume offers a way to see the world anew, to rediscover great civilizations and legends, vast deserts and unspoiled mountain ranges, unusual flora and strange new creatures, and much more.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806131122
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Isabella Lucy Bird's "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The watershed year of Isabella Lucy Bird's life was 1873. In autumn of that year, the forty-one-year-old English gentlewoman embarked by rail from San Francisco's east bay, bound for the Colorado Rockies. A challenging journey, it drove Bird to the utmost physical effort and initiated her lifelong career in what today is called adventure travel. More than one hundred twenty years after their first publication, Isabella Bird's letters to her sister continue to thrill readers with their account of the then-untamed and largely unknown American mountain wilderness. This elegant illustrated edition of Bird's A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, annotated by Ernest S. Bernard, sheds fresh light on ambiguities and obscurities in Bird's letters and contains new details about the frontier Rocky Mountain West -- a region Bird found so beautiful that she gently chided "nature for her close imitation of art". Readers will share Bird's joy and terror as she scales the nearly sheer face of Longs Peak; her wistfulness and wonder in the company of the dashing, doomed mountain man, "Rocky Mountain Jim"; and her unalloyed rapture as she glories in "the rushing winds, the piled-up peaks, the great pines, the wild night noises, the poetry and prose" of her beloved mountains. In addition to a map of Bird's 1873 route and contemporary photographs, this new annotated edition includes an appendix that illustrates and charts the course of Bird's historic ascent of Longs Peak, allowing travelers -- real and armchair -- to share the dangers and discoveries of Isabella Lucy Bird's amazing journey.
Author : Jan MacKell
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082634612X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains written by Jan MacKell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, pregnancy, and abortion. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Expanding on the research she did for Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls (UNM Press), historian Jan MacKell moves beyond the mining towns of Colorado to explore the history of prostitution in the Rocky Mountain states of Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Each state had its share of working girls and madams like Big Nose Kate or Calamity Jane who remain celebrities in the annals of history, but MacKell also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose role in this illicit trade nonetheless shaped our understanding of the American West.
Author : John Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Steep Trails written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work by famed naturalist and writer John Muir details his experiences in mountain landscapes.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535544
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters to Henrietta written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.
Author : Isabella Bird
Publisher : E-Artnow
ISBN 13 : 9788027308767
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains written by Isabella Bird and published by E-Artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book, by Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The book is a compilation of letters that Isabella Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta. In 1872, Isabella left Britain, going first to Australia, then to Hawaii, which she refers to as the Sandwich Islands. In 1873 she travelled to Colorado, then the Colorado Territory. After living a time in Hawaii, she takes a boat, to San Francisco. She passed the area of Lake Tahoe, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to ultimate Estes Park, Colorado, also elsewhere in and near the Rocky Mountains of the Colorado Territory. Early in Colorado, she met Rocky Mountain Jim, described as a desperado, but with whom she got along quite well. She described him as, "He is a man whom any woman might love but no sane woman would marry." 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." Rocky Mountain Jim treated her quite well, and it is sad to note, he was shot to death, seven months later. After many other adventures, Isabella Bird ultimately took a train, east. Upon publication, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains proved an "instant bestseller" and is still considered to be her best work.
Author : Robert Root
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184159
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Following Isabella written by Robert Root and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world traveler, Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root’s own discovery of Colorado’s Front Range following his move from the flatlands of Michigan. In this elegantly written book, Root retraces Bird’s three-month journey, seeking to understand what Colorado meant to her—and what it would come to mean for him. Following Isabella is a work of intersecting histories. Root interweaves an overview of Bird’s life and work with regional history, nature writing, and his own travels to produce a uniquely informative and entertaining narrative. He probes Bird’s self-transformation as her writing moved from private letters to published books, and also draws on reflections of other authors of her day, including Grace Greenwood and Helen Hunt Jackson. Like Bird, Root experiences his most fulfilling moments in the mountains, climbing formidable Longs Peak, living alone in the cabin of famed editor William Allen White, and wandering wild landscapes. Through reflections on earlier writers’ experiences, and by weighing his own response to them, Root learns not only how to come to Colorado, as visitors so often do, but more important, how to stay.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains written by Isabella L. Bird and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book, by Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The book is a compilation of letters, that Isabella Bird 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." Rocky Mountain Jim treated her quite well, and it is sad to note, he was shot to death, seven months later.
