Contrary to traveller talk, Colorado settlers welcomed her warmly

Evidence

This is not my experience in my cheery mountain home. How the rafters ring as I write with songs and mirth, while the pitch-pine logs blaze and crackle in the chimney, and the fine snow dust drives in through the chinks and forms mimic snow wreaths on the floor, and the wind raves and howls and plays among the creaking pine branches and snaps them short off, and the lightning plays round the blasted top of Long’s Peak, and the hardy hunters divert themselves with the thought that when I go to bed I must turn out and face the storm! — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 123

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the common ‘stranger treated with suspicion’ frontier trope that appears in other pioneer accounts the reader may know. — connects to: Isolated Colorado travel depended on settlers’ informal custom of lodging strangers. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 160; Colorado frontier settlers prized sharp dealing yet kept property and women safe. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 196; Wild West men showed unusual respectful courtesy toward the lone lady traveler — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 36 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Wild West men showed unusual respectful courtesy toward the lone lady traveler #corroborates (0.86) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 36
• Isolated Colorado travel depended on settlers’ informal custom of lodging strangers. #qualifies (0.78) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 160
• A remote Colorado backwoods cabin mixed rough male pioneers with a writing woman #exemplifies (0.75) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 102
• Colorado frontier settlers prized sharp dealing yet kept property and women safe. #complicates (0.74) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 196