The life and times of explorer Isabella Bird – and tips for solo travellers in the Covid age
To mark International Women’s Day, delve into the Victorian traveller s daring deeds – and the writer s recreation of one of her journeys
8 March 2021 • 11:49am Fascinated by Bird’s story, I felt I needed to understand her motivation for undertaking such extreme journeys
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America was no place for tourists in the years surrounding the American Civil War. It was a lawless, dangerous country, certainly not the place for a young English girl to be riding thousands of miles in crammed “stages” (stagecoaches) or “cars” (trains). But Isabella Bird was fearless and, in 1854, wrote about being stuck on a train with prairie men telling stories, hunters with rifles, Mexicans singing Spanish songs and New Englanders belting out Yankee Doodle. She dodged outbreaks of cholera, took steamers (which promptly sank) on the Great Lakes, befriended freed slaves and smoked a
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In fear of lawsuit, Missoula postpones flavored vaping ban
Mayor John Engen said the adopted ordinance will begin, if at all, on May 1 to potentially avoid the cost of a lawsuit.
By: Alex Mitchell - Missoula Current
Posted at 9:38 AM, Jan 26, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-26 13:25:14-05
MISSOULA â The City of Missoulaâs flavored vaping ban was to be enacted on Monday, Jan. 25, but the city received a lawsuit earlier in the day cautioning otherwise.
During Monday nightâs City Council meeting, Mayor John Engen said the adopted ordinance will begin, if at all, on May 1 to potentially avoid the cost of a lawsuit.
Legislature eyes reversal of Missoulaâs ban on flavored vaping; receives praise, criticism
MTN News
Posted at 11:52 AM, Jan 14, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-14 13:52:36-05
MISSOULA â A House bill heard in committee this week would limit local control on alternative nicotine and vapor products, retroactively canceling Missoulaâs flavored vape ban passed by the Missoula City Council last November.
House Bill 137, sponsored by Rep. Ron Marshall, R-Hamilton, aims to amend the State of Montanaâs Youth Access to Tobacco Act by clarifying that alternative nicotine products are separate from tobacco products.
It would also prevent and stop any regulation on nicotine and vapor products by local governments, health boards and the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services â an agency that attempted to eliminate the sale of flavored e-cigarettes last summer.
What It Was Really Like Being A Mountain Man In The 1800s Buyenlarge/Getty Images
By Jan MacKell Collins/Dec. 28, 2020 1:12 am EDT/Updated: Jan. 18, 2021 11:49 pm EDT
Tough. Resilient. Determined. Adventurous. These are just some of the words used to describe the mountain men (also commonly referred to as fur trappers) who rambled all over the Rocky Mountains but also eastern parts of early America as far back as the 1500 s. By the early 1800 s, says Legends of America, Joseph Dickson became one of the first known mountain men when he traveled alongside explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the Missouri River. Dickson and others like him literally made the wilderness their home, embracing the seasons as their time clock and living off the land as they made their way through the mountains, says X Roads. The life could be harsh, even brutal, but somehow many of these men prevailed.
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