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Title: Wild Life on the Rockies

Author: Enos A. Mills

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Language: English

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Wild Life on the Rockies

[Illustration: LONG'S PEAK FROM THE EAST]

Wild Life on the Rockies

By

Enos A. Mills

With Illustrations from Photographs

[Illustration: Publisher's Device]

Boston and New York

Houghton Mifflin Company

The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY ENOS A. MILLS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published March 1909_

To

John Muir

PREFACE

This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and
novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty
years it has been my good fortune to live most of the time with
nature, on the mountains of the West. I have made scores of long
exploring rambles over the mountains in every season of the year,
a nature-lover charmed with the birds and the trees. On my later
excursions I have gone alone and without firearms. During three
succeeding winters, in which I was a Government Experiment Officer
and called the "State Snow Observer," I scaled many of the higher
peaks of the Rockies and made many studies on the upper slopes of
these mountains.

"Colorado Snow Observer" was printed in part in _The Youth's
Companion_ for May 18, 1905, under the title of "In the Mountain
Snows"; "The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine" appeared in _The World's
Work_ for August, 1908; and "The Beaver and his Works" is reprinted
from _The World To-Day_ for December, 1908.

E. A. M.

Contents

Colorado Snow Observer 1

The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine 29

The Beaver and his Works 51

The Wilds without Firearms 69

A Watcher on the Heights