Wildlife in the Rockies shows no fear of human presence.

Evidence

It is so little profaned by man that if one were compelled to live here in solitude one might truly say of the bears, deer, and elk which abound, “Their tameness is shocking to me.” It is the world of “big game.” Just now a heavy-headed elk, with much-branched horns fully three feet long, stood and looked at me, and then quietly trotted away. He was so near that I heard the grass, crisp with hoar frost, crackle under his feet. Bears stripped the cherry bushes within a few yards of us last night. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 74

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how abundant wildlife and landscape are narrated in firsthand frontier accounts. — connects to: Winter stillness in the Rockies amplifies the smallest sounds of travel — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 169; Frontier wildlife remained unafraid of humans in this unsettled region — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 163

Broader Connections

• Frontier wildlife remained unafraid of humans in this unsettled region #expands (0.90) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 163
• Winter stillness in the Rockies amplifies the smallest sounds of travel #qualifies (0.72) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 169