Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely Friendship

By: Chris Enss

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Synopsis: **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.