A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

There's nothing Western folk admire so much as pluck in a woman."

Womanly dignity and manly respect for women are the salt of society in this wild West.

Truly, that air is the elixir of life.

n I mounted my horse after breakfast the sun was high and the air so keen and intoxicating that, giving the animal his head, I galloped up and down hill, feeling completely tireles

I sustained the reputation which our country-women bear in America by looking a "perfect guy";

. It lay dimpling and scintillating beneath the noonday s

All was bright with that brilliancy of sky and atmosphere, that blaze of sunshine and universal glitter, which I never saw till I came to California, combined with an elasticity in the air which removed all lassitude, and gives one spirit enough for anythin

have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.