![]() ![]() Her guide was Rocky Mountain Jim, described as a desperado, but with whom she got along quite well. She passed the area of Lake Tahoe, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, Estes Park, Colorado, and elsewhere in and near the Rocky Mountains of the Colorado Territory. After some time there, she sailed for the United States, docking at San Francisco. In 1872, Isabella Bird left Britain, going first to Australia, then to Hawaii, then known as the Sandwich Islands. The book is a compilation of letters that Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta, and was published in October 1879 by John Murray. ![]() A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book by British explorer Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the on the frontier of the United States. ![]()
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