A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabella L. Bird
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NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
LETTER I.
LETTER II
LETTER III.
LETTER IV.
LETTER V.
LETTER VI.
LETTER VII.
LETTER VIII.
LETTER IX.
LETTER X.
LETTER XI.
LETTER XII.
LETTER XIII.
LETTER XIV.
LETTER XV.
LETTER XVI.
LETTER XVII.
TO MY SISTER, TO WHOM THESE LETTERS WERE ORIGINALLY WRITTEN, THEY
ARE NOW AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
FOR the benefit of other lady travellers, I wish to explain
that my "Hawaiian riding dress" is the "American Lady's Mountain
Dress," a half-fitting jacket, a skirt reaching to the ankles, and
full Turkish trousers gathered into frills falling over the boots,—a
thoroughly serviceable and feminine costume for mountaineering and
other rough travelling, as in the Alps or any other part of the world.
I.L.B. November 27, 1879.
IN consequence of the unobserved omission of a date to my
letters having been pointed out to me, I take this opportunity of
stating that I travelled in Colorado in the autumn and early winter of
1873, on my way to England from the Sandwich Islands. The letters are
a faithful picture of the country and state of society as it then was;
but friends who have returned from the West within the last six months
tell me that things are rapidly changing, that the frame house is
replacing the log cabin, and that the footprints of elk and bighorn
may be sought for in vain on the dewy slopes of Estes Park.
I.L.B. January 16, 1880.