# A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

By Isabella L. Bird.

"A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella L. Bird is a travel book published in 1879. Compiled from letters to her sister, it chronicles Bird's 1873 journey through the Colorado Rockies on the American frontier. Guided by the enigmatic desperado Rocky Mountain Jim, Bird becomes the first white woman to summit Longs Peak. Her vivid account of wilderness adventures and frontier life became an instant bestseller, helping establish her pioneering reputation as an explorer. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 -- Travel -- Rocky Mountains; Women -- Rocky Mountains -- Biography; Women travelers -- Rocky Mountains -- Biography; Frontier and pioneer life -- Rocky Mountains; Rocky Mountains -- Description and travel; Estes Park (Colo.) -- Biography

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