A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains/Note

by Isabella Lucy Bird

PREFATORY NOTE.

These letters, as their style sufficiently indicates, were written without the remotest idea of publication. They appeared last year in the Leisure Hour at the request of its editor, and were so favourably received that I venture to present them to the public in a separate form, as a record of very interesting travelling experiences, and of a phase of pioneer life which is rapidly passing away.

 

NOTE TO SECOND EDITION.

 

For the benefit of other lady travellers, I wish to explain that my "Hawaiian riding dress" is the "American Lady's Mountain Dress," a half-fitting jacket, a skirt reaching to the ankles, and full Turkish trousers gathered into frills which fall over the boots,—a thoroughly serviceable and feminine costume for mountaineering and other rough travelling in any part of the world. I add this explanation to the prefatory note, together with a rough sketch of the costume,^[1] in consequence of an erroneous statement^[2] in the Times of November 22d.

I. L. B.

November 27, 1879.

1. See Title page.
2. "She donned masculine habiliments for greater convenience."

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