A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L.; (Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin) [signed] - 1965

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (2.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated. Bird's classic account of her 1873 adventures in the Colorado Rockies, guided by Mountain Jim. Recounts a world of vigilance committees, lynchings, and desperados quick on the trigger. This is volume 14 in the publisher's Western Frontier Library series. Introduction by Daniel J Boorstin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Daniel J. Boorstin, Pulitzer-prize winning historian and Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987. Boorstin's books have received numerous awards. The Americans: The Colonial Experience won the Bancroft Prize. The Americans: The National Experience captured the Pulitzer Prize. The Americans: The Democratic Experience was awarded the Francis Parkman Prize. Among his other books are The Creators; The Discoverers; and Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Daniel J. Boorstin. Third Oklahoma printing. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xxiii, 252pp .