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Rent A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
Retail Price: $6.99
Pages: 112
Synopsis
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains' is one of the many accounts of Isabella L. Bird's amazing travels and adventures. At the age of twenty-two in 1854 Isabella left a comfortable life in England for a life of adventurous travel. 'A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains' is the account of six months of those travels in 1873 through the rugged terrain of the Colorado Rockies. Based upon her letters to her sister this account relates the many hardships of the great western frontier in the pioneer days as well as the awesome beauty of nature she found in the western territories.
Reviews
I really enjoyed this travelogue about Isabella Bird's travel in the Rocky mountains. I did not have high expectations for reading about a wealthy woman who traveled as a hobby, but her observations of Colorado around the turn of the century were very interesting and fun to read.