The Rocky Mountain Wonderland

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Enos A. Mills. The Rocky Mountain Wonderland

The Rocky Mountain Wonderland

Table of Contents

Preface

Illustrations

Going to the Top

Wild Mountain Sheep

The Forest Frontier

The Chinook Wind

Associating with. Snow-Slides

Wild Folk of the. Mountain-Summits

Some Forest History

Mountain Lakes

A Mountain Pony

The Grizzly Bear

Bringing back the Forest

Mountain Parks

Drought in Beaver World

In the Winter Snows

My Chipmunk Callers

A Peak by the Plains

The Conservation of. Scenery

The Rocky Mountain. National Park

Index

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Enos A. Mills

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The last season of my guiding career was a full one. Thirty-two ascents were made during the thirty-one days of August. Half a dozen of these were by moonlight. In addition to these climbs a daily round trip was made to Estes Park, eight miles distant and fifteen hundred feet down the mountain. These Estes Park trips commonly were made on horseback, though a few were by wagon. My busiest day was crowded with two wagon trips and one horseback trip to Estes Park, then a moonlight climb to the summit. In a sixty-hour stretch I did not have any sleep or take any food. Being in condition for the work and doing it easily, I was in excellent shape when the guiding ended.

The happiest one of my two hundred and fifty-seven guiding experiences on the rugged granite trail of this peak was with Harriet Peters, a little eight-year-old girl, the youngest child who has made the climb. She was alert and obedient, enjoyed the experience, and reached the top without a slip or a stumble, and with but little assistance from me. It was pleasant to be with her on the summit, listening to her comments and hearing her childlike questions. I have told the whole story of this climb in "Wild Life on the Rockies."

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