After the success of The Englishwoman in America (also reissued in
this series), the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831-1904) continued
her travels - first to Scotland, then to Australia and Hawaii -
before returning to the United States and taking up residence in
what was then the newest state, Colorado. Her adventures here -
recorded as letters to her sister which she artlessly tells the
reader were never intended for publication - included riding alone
across the prairie, trying to help a family dying of cholera in the
face of indifference from the local inhabitants, a sight of the
invalids who were coming to Denver in huge numbers to be cured by
the mountain air, and an encounter (if it was nothing more) with
that western archetype, the one-eyed, romantic, courteous,
poetry-declaiming outlaw, who by the following year was 'in a
dishonoured grave, with a rifle bullet in his brain'.
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