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1999
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"The watershed year of Isabella Lucy Bird's life was 1873. In autumn of that year, the forty-one-year-old English gentlewoman embarked by rail from San Francisco's east bay, bound for the Colorado Rockies. A challenging journey, it drove Bird to the utmost physical effort and initiated her life-long career in what today is called adventure travel. More than one hundred twenty years after their first publication, Isabella Bird's letters to her sister...
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Inspiration drawn from letters, journals, historical sources, and quilts--essential vehicles of women's storytelling through the years--fills this narrative re-creation of the history of the West, from the time of the early pioneers to the present day. 70 color photos. 60 b&w photos. 20 line drawings.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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Contains papers presented at the fourth annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium held June 9, 2007 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Profiles a number of prominent and exceptional women throughout the history of the Rocky Mountain West and highlights the political, cultural, economic and social conditions which these women helped to shape
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The author draws on her travels and homestead life in the Colorado Rockies in an essay collection on her ties to nature that explores the symbiotic relationship between humans and the earth. "'How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us,' Pam Houston writes. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves...
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2018.
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"In this funny and gritty debut memoir, Jan Redford grows from a nomadic rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, in a fit of rage toward her father, Jan pits herself against a steep rock face near their cottage. At the top, fired up by the victory, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, ' a nomadic climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Jan...
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Pub. Date
c2004
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An illustrated tribute to a year spent by the author and her dog in Montana recounts her visits to the site of a sandhill crane's nest, an ice-covered river, and duck migration stops, in a naturalist's guide complemented by hand-lettered notes, detailed sketches, and watercolors.
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Pub. Date
1998
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Tells the stories of six women who traveled to Oregon Territory as missionary wives in the 1830s. One of the women, Narcissa Whitman, was killed in the Whitman Massacre of 1847. The others were Eliza Spalding, Mary Richardson Walker, Myra Fairbanks Eells, Sarah White Smith and Mary Dix Gray. Describes establishment of missions at Tshimakian and Waiilaptu.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Only one person believed Jane Parnell when she reported being raped at twenty-one: the mountain man who, after leading her up one peak after another in the Colorado Rockies, became her husband. Parnell took to mountaineering in the Rocky Mountains as a means to overcome her family's history of mental illness and the trauma of rape. By age thrity she became the first woman to climb the 100 highest peaks of the state. But regaining her footing could...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady expected to marry a man of means and position. Instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent. This book reveals the true story of Bird's relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains"--
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Pub. Date
c2005
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Martha Maxwell was an innovative taxidermist whose skills changed the craft. She was among the first taxidermists to display animal specimens in their natural habitats. Her exhibit at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 was described as a "startling revelation of what a woman can do in one of the most difficult fields of art" and made her famous throughout the nation.