The Lady and the Mountain Man

<P>**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**</P><P>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.</P><P>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. </P><P>This book reveals the true story of Bird’s relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. </P>