A Lady's Ranch Life in Montana: Volume 67 (The Western Frontier Library Series) - Hardcover

Isabel F. Randall (author), Richard L. Saunders (editor) & Shirley A. Leckie (Foreword By)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080613609X ISBN 13: 9780806136097

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004

Synopsis

In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic account of a truly astounding journey.

About this title

About the Author

Isabel F. Randall (1860-1933) lived in Montana between 1884 and 1886, when she returned to England and published her collection of letters on her American experience.

Richard L. Saunders was a professor at the University of Tennessee, Martin, where he headed the library's public services department and taught U.S. history. He is the author of Dale Morgan on the Mormons and A Lady's Ranch Life in Montana.
|Shirley A. Leckie, Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth and Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080613609X
• ISBN 13: 9780806136097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256