A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book by British explorer Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the on the frontier of the United States.

The book is a compilation of letters that Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta, and was published in October 1879[1][2] by John Murray.

[3] In 1872, Isabella Bird left Britain, going first to Australia, then to Hawaii, then known as the Sandwich Islands.

She was the first white woman to stand atop Longs Peak, Colorado, pointing out that Jim "dragged me up, like a bale of goods, by sheer force of muscle."

[5] It contributed to Bird being distinguished by being the first woman to become a member of the Royal Geographical Society, in 1892.