A great lady traveller's best known work Isabella Bird was born in
1831 in Cheshire, England became one of a distinguished group of
female travellers famous in the nineteenth century-a time when it
was considered that a lady's place should be confined to the home.
Isabella travelled and explored the world extensively and became a
notable writer and natural historian. This book, her fourth and
arguably both her best and best known, concerns a journey of 800
miles through the Rocky Mountains. Isabella made the trip on
horseback, using a conventional saddle. The American west was still
wild in 1873 and Isabella's accounts of the landscape and its
frontier's folk are important historical records. Particularly
interesting is her relationship with her 'dear desperado, ' the
justifiably named Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent who was shot dead a
year after their acquaintance. Leonaur editions are newly typeset
and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and
hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature
gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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