Very interesting and vivid description about life in the West during the 1870’s. Great to listen to if you’re going on a long trip through the Rocky Mountains. It really made me respect the toughness and resilience of the settlers in that remote region.

Very interesting and a pretty good reader being she was a volunteer.

Enjoyed this book very much. Loved the description of the scenery.

Apparently women were made of hardier stock back then! Very interesting listen.

The hardships of mountain living and early pioneer life are told by this adventurous trooper of a woman in a series of letters.

Entertaining account of Bird's journey through 19th century Colorado. Her letters present a detailed account of the toils of frontier life, coupled with excellent descriptions of the raw beauty of the mountains. The narration was quite excellent as well. Despite Bird being English, the narrator is quite adept at convincing a listener that she instead hailed from the Southern States

Interesting glimpse of life in the 1870s from an intrepid traveler. Seems a woman accomplishing what she did was quite an anomaly at the time. I wish the reader would have put just a little more inflection into it, but it is a LibriVox recording so I didn’t really expect more. I did enjoy the book and felt it was well worth my time

Years later, I still think about this courageous and adventurous woman and her horse. Loved this story!

Having spent 3 holidays in Estes Park from England this is an extremely interesting listen.

life was hard. but they were kind to all and god fearing people .. I enjoyed.