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The lady and the mountain man : Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim and their unlikely friendship / Chris Enss.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781493045921
- ISBN: 149304592X
- Physical Description: xx, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2021]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | An English Woman in America -- Colorado Bound -- Reaching Estes Park -- Meeting Mountain Jim -- Onward to Longs Peak -- Riding with Mountain Jim -- The Confession -- Lost and Found -- Leaving Estes Park -- The End of Mountain Jim. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington Public Library | 978.0209 ENSS 2021 | 39851001618181 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
Chris Enss is a New York Times best selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than twenty years. She has penned more than forty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with five Will Rogers Medallion Awards, an Elmer Kelton Book Award, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, and was a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist. Her book The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency has been optioned by NBC is currently in development to become a television series. Enss’s most recent work is According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate Elder, Love of Doc Holliday.