Wild Life on the Rockies

LONG'S PEAK FROM THE EAST

Wild Life on the Rockies

By

Enos A. Mills

With Illustrations from Photographs

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 andnovel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twentyyears it has been my good fortune to live most of the time withnature, on the mountains of the West. I have made scores of longexploring rambles over the mountains in every season of the year, anature-lover charmed with the birds and the trees. On my laterexcursions I have gone alone and without firearms. During threesucceeding winters, in which I was a Government Experiment Officer andcalled the "State Snow Observer," I scaled many of the higher peaks ofthe Rockies and made many studies on the upper slopes of thesemountains.

"Colorado Snow Observer" was printed in part in The Youth'sCompanion for May 18, 1905, under the title of "In the MountainSnows"; "The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine" appearedviiiin The World'sWork for August, 1908; and "The Beaver and his Works" is reprintedfrom The World To-Day for December, 1908.

E. A. M.

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