Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely Friendship
Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely Friendship
**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**
The love they shared for an untamed land brought them together.
Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster’s daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected to marry a man of means and position instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent.
The unlikely pair met in Estes Park, Colorado in 1873. Jim was enchanted by Isabella and she was infatuated with him. In a published version of Isabella’s letter to her sister, she said of Jim that “he was a man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry.” On a climb to the top of Longs Peak their friendship blossomed into more than expected.
This book reveals the true story of Bird’s relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. ASIN: 149304592X VSKU: PKV.149304592X.A Condition: Acceptable Author/Artist:Enss, Chris Binding: Paperback Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown. Condition Notes: It's been through some chapters of life! Expect visible wear—creases, notes, highlights, maybe even a splash of water here and there. Perfect for readers who love a book with history.
$2.46
Original: $8.19
-70%
Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely Friendship—
$8.19
$2.46
Product Information
Shipping & Returns
Description
**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**
The love they shared for an untamed land brought them together.
Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster’s daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected to marry a man of means and position instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent.
The unlikely pair met in Estes Park, Colorado in 1873. Jim was enchanted by Isabella and she was infatuated with him. In a published version of Isabella’s letter to her sister, she said of Jim that “he was a man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry.” On a climb to the top of Longs Peak their friendship blossomed into more than expected.
This book reveals the true story of Bird’s relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. ASIN: 149304592X VSKU: PKV.149304592X.A Condition: Acceptable Author/Artist:Enss, Chris Binding: Paperback Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown. Condition Notes: It's been through some chapters of life! Expect visible wear—creases, notes, highlights, maybe even a splash of water here and there. Perfect for readers who love a book with history.
You may also like
-70%NEW
All the Way to Berlin: A Paratrooper at War in Europe
$2.76
$0.83
-70%NEW
Ovid's Heroides
$14.40
$4.32
-70%NEW
Fatal Hour
$4.18
$1.25
-70%NEW
American Hippies (Cambridge Essential Histories)
$16.39
$4.92
-70%NEW
To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination
$2.52
$0.76
NEW
Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960
$2.67
NEW
Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome
$2.60
-70%NEW
Chronicle of America
$5.11
$1.53
-70%NEW
Greeley (Images of America)
$5.96
$1.79
-70%NEW
The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah (Don't Know Much About)
$2.76
$0.83
-70%NEW
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
$2.44
$0.73
-70%NEW
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia (Hist Atlas)
$30.52
$9.16
$2.46
Original: $8.19
-70%
Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely Friendship—