A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains

Description

When we hear the word “lady,” we may think of someone who isn’t exactly cut out for the difficult lifestyle that Isabella Bird engaged in during the late 1800s, when she explored the Rocky Mountains and the natural beauty of Colorado in a manner that most men would have been envious of.

After her doctor recommended that she enjoy the fresh air of America as a method to deal with her illness, Isabella L. Bird did not realize that she’ll be spending many of her following years climbing 14,000-foot mountains, befriending desperados and facing the unforgiving cold of the Colorado Rockies. After she had already explored Australia, Hawaii and Asia, however, she decided to travel alone through the Rocky Mountains – a feat outlined in detail in her book, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains.

One of the very few female explorers of her time, Bird was also an accomplished writer, and managed to paint a vivid, beautiful and quite unique picture of the Rocky Mountains, as they were more than 150 years ago.

In the book, she is depicted traveling mostly alone, and spending her nights in areas dominated by uninhabited wilderness. She is not afraid of herding cattle or facing low temperatures that cause even the ink on her pen freeze while she was writing about her experiences. Snowstorms, falling ice and a host of dangers that modern-day hikers and tourists can scarcely imagine, were often faced by Bird every day, along with the uncertainty of making it to safety in one piece, at the end of thousands of miles of traveling.

If you need a detailed, well-written and very real account of life in the wildest side of nature, as recounted by a genuine and very likeable author at the end of the 19th century, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains might well be one of the books you will enjoy reading the most.
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