I forgot to include a real jewel of a book:

"A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella Bird (forward written by
Daniel Boorstein).

A primary source from the letters of Isabella Bird, an English woman who
traveled from San Francisco, over the Sierras and into the Colorado Rockies in
1873. She was not only an intelligent and astute observer of daily life, but she
produced one of the most sensitive and descriptive historical travel
narratives yet written (it makes wonderful bedtime reading).

From encountering a camp of desperadoes and grizzly bears in the Sierras,
living in Estes Park and being one of the first to climb Long's Peak (14,255
ft.), to her conversations with the outlaw poet Desperado Jim, and her traversing
hundreds of miles through mountains, rivers, and plains on her steadfast pony
Birdie.

Folks this account is magnetic! About as good as a primary source can get!

Cheers!
Dave

David Harvey
Artifacts
2930 South Birch Street
Denver, CO  80222
303-300-5257
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