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A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / by Isabella L. Bird ; with an introd. by Daniel J. Boorstin.
LIBRA Rare F782.R6 B6 1960
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904.
- Series:
- Western frontier library ; 14.
- Western frontier library ; vol. 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Rocky Mountains.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Women.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Women--Rocky Mountains--Biography.
- Estes Park (Colo.).
- Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904.
- Bird, Isabella L.
- Rocky Mountains.
- Rocky Mountains Region.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Klausner, Samuel Z. (donor) (Klausner Collection copy)
- Klausner, Bertha (former owner)
- Bertha Klausner International Literary Agency Inc. (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1960]
- Summary:
- Born in 1831, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2009 by Samuel Z. Klausner.
- Penn Klausner copy is 18th printing (no date).
- ISBN:
- 0806113286
- 9780806113289
- OCLC:
- 949342
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