Part of the Great Journeys series, this book presents Isabella Bird's (1831-1904) adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. It brings a vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes.
it was nice to revisit rocky national park here in the crowded alps. and not only revisit but revisit it before the rockies got partially crowded. a fabulous little journal describing people like mountain jim whom she personally spent time with and the ill people coming to the rockies for the air.
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