A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library, 14)

Isabella Bird was an extraordinary woman, an adventurer who traveled through Asia, the Hawaiian Islands, and all over the United States in the 1800s. This particular book covers her 1873 trip to the Colorado Rockies, in which she encounters bears, blizzards, and grizzled desperadoes. She scales mountain peaks, sleeps in ice-cold cabins, and sallies forth into lumber camps and wilderness stronghold... read more