A rough Estes Park cabin offered Bird ideal comfort and health.
Evidence
It is quite comfortablein the fashion that I like. I have a log cabin, raised on six posts, all to myself, with a skunk’s lair underneath it, and a small lake close to it. There is a frost every night, and all day it is cool enough for a roaring fire. The ranchman, who is half-hunter, half-stockman, and his wife are jovial, hearty Welsh people from Llanberis, who laugh with loud, cheery British laughs, sing in parts down to the youngest child, are free hearted and hospitable, and pile the pitch-pine logs half-way up the great rude chimney. There has been fresh meat each day since I came, delicious bread baked daily, excellent potatoes, tea and coffee, and an abundant supply of milk like cream. I have a clean hay bed with six blankets, and there are neither bugs nor fleas. The scenery is the most glorious I have ever seen, and is above us, around us, at the very door. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 203
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Isabella Bird’s travel writing rejected Victorian imperial condescension toward other peoples — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 16
Related
- A log cabin perched above a skunk’s lair still felt like paradise (similarity 0.85)
- Isabella Bird’s travel writing rejected Victorian imperial condescension toward other peoples (similarity 0.80)
- Bird’s mountain life ran on outdoor riding and rough camping, not domestic comforts (similarity 0.79)
- Welcoming Welsh homesteaders ran Estes Park as a mountain retreat (similarity 0.79)