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 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

viii 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.

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