A newspaper reputation for horsemanship raised expectations she feared to meet

Evidence

The landlord had got a horse, but could not give any satisfactory assurances of his being quiet, and being much shaken by my fall at Canyon, I earnestly wished that the Greeley Tribune had not given me a reputation for horsemanship, which had preceded me here. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 94

Categorization

• QUESTION: Her fall at Canyon is mentioned without detail — a piece of her recent history worth chasing into earlier letters for how it shaped this fearfulness.