A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird

Of prairie dogs she expressed both her fear that they would eventually destroy everything on the plains because they were so numerous and her admiration of them for the way they could thrive in such a desolate place. Listen Free to Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains audiobook by Isabella Lucy Bird with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a compilation of letters that Isabella Lucy Bird sent to her sister while traveling through Colorado from September.

Her pen - the ink for which she occasionally had to place on a stove to thaw it for writing - recorded her thoughts about the tameness of elk and bighorn sheep, of the great forests of huge pines, of the plains rivers sparsely grown with small trees. While traveling from Cheyenne to Greeley, she could see the far off Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, a view that stimulated her to write, “The Alps, from the Lombard Plains, are the finest mountain panorama I ever saw, but not equal to this.” After returning to England, she assembled those letters into the book, “A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains,” a book that endures to this day. I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all ones life and sigh. We can understand this connection by the letters she wrote to Henrietta, her sister.

Genre: letters prose Subject: Rocky Mountains West (U.S.)-Description and travel Estes Park (Colo. Isabella Bird did not just pass through Colorado. Publication Year: 1881 Source: New York : G.P.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird