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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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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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Pub. Date
c2004
Description
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
Description
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]
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
"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...
9) Sacagawea
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book describes the life and accomplishments of Sacagawea, a Shoshone Native American who traveled with the Corps of Discovery in 1805-1806 as they explored the Louisiana Territory, the western half of the Mississippi River basin.
Author
Pub. Date
1970
Description
Isabella Bird began her travels at the age of 40. She travelled to Australia, Hawaii, and the Rockies of Colorado where she rode for weeks, alone among the high peaks. The books she wrote about her American adventures were a sensation in England, and for the rest of her long life Isabella was one of the world's celebrated explorers. She spent most of the next 30 years in the more obscure parts of Asia, visiting Japan and Korea shortly afters they...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Cassandra Kircher was in her twenties when she was hired by the National Park Service, landing a life that allowed her to reinvent herself. For four years she collected entrance fees and worked in the dispatch office before being assigned as the first woman to patrol an isolated backcountry district of Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. There, Kircher encountered wonder and beauty, accidents and death. Although she always suspected the mountains...
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©2015-2016
Description
"High altitude, grocies delivered by mule train and spoiled Thanksgiving turkeys are just a few of the challenges faced by the ladies living in Colorado's remote mining towns at th end of the 19th Century. Lean the stories of three inspirational women who displayed tenacity and perseverance while surrounded by a harsh landscape and un-lady-like company."--Container
13) Fly girl
Series
Colorado experience volume 110
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Colorado Experience profiles Grand Junction resident, Annabelle Craft Moss. During World War II, while most male Air Force pilots left for combat missions abroad, the Women Air Force Service Pilot program was formed for domestic missions. Growing up with a passion for flight and a deep sense of patriotism, Annabelle jumped at the opportunity to serve her country. But flying an A-16 Trainer was only the beginning. Annabelle went on to lead an active...