Book Description: Isabella Bird, daughter of an Anglican clergyman, defies her family and in the 1870s leaves home at a young age to travel the world alone. Of her adventures, none is more daunting than her determination to be the first woman to climb Long's Peak, the highest point in the Colorado Rockies. Although she is accustomed to hardships, Miss Bird faces undreamed-of obstacles in her Colorado adventure and the one man who can help her gain the summit of the mountain is an outlaw named Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent.