The incredible story of a Yorkshire trailblazer is being told on TV tonight
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"No one knows exactly what their relationship was but we can speculate,” says Ballou. “One thing was for certain she never would have managed to climb to the top of Long’s Peak, in borrowed boots, if it hadn’t been for Rocky Mountain Jim.” Jim proposed to Isabella, but she turned him down. In a letter to her sister she describes him as"A man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry".
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