

She traveled September through December 1873 by train, stagecoach and horse. She was in her early forties and unmarried. Works: * The Englishwoman in America (1856) * Pen and Pencil Sketches Among The Outer Hebrides (published in The Leisure Hour) (1866) * The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875) * The Two Atlantics (published in The Leisure Hour) (1876) * Australia Felix: Impressions of Victoria and Melbourne (published in The Leisure Hour) (1877) * A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) * Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880) * Sketches In The Malay Peninsula (published in The Leisure Hour) (1883) * The Golden Chersonese and the way Thither (1883) * A Pilgrimage To Sinai (published in The Leisure Hour) (1886) * Journeys in Persia and Kur Isabella Lucy Bird (Octo– October 7, 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveller, writer, and a natural historian. Isabella Lucy Bird(1831 1904) writes letters to her sister Henrietta, relating her experiences while traveling in the Western Sierra Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado. Bird most famous book is probably A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains. RAINLESSNESS, which one may not call drought, the valleys with sides crimson with the poison oak, the dusty vineyards, with great purple clusters thick among the leaves, and between the vines great dusty melons lying on the dusty earth. Painting an intimate portrait of the Wild West.


Isabella Lucy Bird (Octo– October 7, 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveller, writer, and a natural historian. Read 417 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. In 1873, a middle-aged Englishwoman toured the Colorado Rockies on horseback - alone, for the most part.
