A remote Colorado backwoods cabin mixed rough male pioneers with a writing woman

Evidence

Page 82 fully, which surprised me; but he has since told me that in the evening light he thought I was “Mountain Jim, dressed up as a woman!” I recognized in him a countryman, and he introduced himself as Griffith Evans, a Welshman from the slate quarries near Llanberis. When the cabin door was opened I saw a good-sized log room, unchinked, however, with windows of infamous glass, looking two ways; a rough stone fireplace, in which pine logs, half as large as I am, were burning; a boarded floor, a round table, two rocking chairs, a carpet-covered backwoods couch; and skins, Indian bows and arrows, wampum belts, and antlers, fitly decorated the rough walls, and equally fitly, rifles were stuck up in the corners. Seven men, smoking, were lying about on the floor, a sick man lay on the couch, and a middle-aged lady sat at the table writing. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 102

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the interior descriptions and frontier-habitation textures familiar from the tree/infrastructure and colonial-settler reading. — connects to: Contrary to traveller talk, Colorado settlers welcomed her warmly — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 123; Isolated Colorado travel depended on settlers’ informal custom of lodging strangers. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 160

Broader Connections

• Isolated Colorado travel depended on settlers’ informal custom of lodging strangers. #qualifies (0.72) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 160