One eye was entirely gone, and the loss made one side of the face repulsive, while the other might have been modeled in marble… Of his genius and chivalry to women there does not appear to be any doubt; but he is a desperate character, and subject to 'ugly fits', when people think it best to avoid him.
"[4] With Nugent as guide, and two others, she climbed Longs Peak; Bird wrote, "Had I known that the ascent was a real mountaineering feat I should not have felt the slightest ambition to perform it."
During the expedition, Nugent confided to her; she wrote in a letter that he "told stories of his early youth, and of a great sorrow which had led him to embark on a lawless and desperate life.
[2] Nugent was opposed to Lord Dunraven's plan to make Estes Park a hunting preserve, but Evans was in favor of it.
[5] Isabella Bird, aware during her visit of the bad feeling between them, wrote in a letter, "Jim's 'I'll shoot you' has more than once been heard in Griff's cabin.