



Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.)









By Enos A. Mills

    THE SPELL OF THE ROCKIES. Illustrated.
    WILD LIFE ON THE ROCKIES. Illustrated.

  HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
  BOSTON AND NEW YORK




The Spell of the Rockies




[Illustration: THE HOME OF THE WHIRLWIND (p. 78)]




  The Spell
  of the Rockies

  By
  Enos A. Mills

  With Illustrations from Photographs
  by the Author

  [Illustration]

  Boston and New York
  Houghton Mifflin Company
  The Riverside Press Cambridge
  1911




  COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY ENOS A. MILLS
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  _Published November 1911_




  To
  B. W.




Preface


Although I have been alone by a camp-fire in every State and Territory
in the Union, with the exception of Rhode Island, the matter in this
book is drawn almost entirely from my experiences in the Rocky
Mountain region.

Some of the chapters have already appeared in magazines, and I am
indebted to The Curtis Publishing Company, Doubleday, Page and
Company, "Suburban Life," and "Recreation" for allowing me to reprint
the papers which they have published. "Country Life in America"
published "Racing an Avalanche," "Alone with a Landslide," and "A
Rainy Day at the Stream's Source,"--the two last under the titles of
"Alone with a Crumbling Mountain" and "At the Stream's Source." The
"Saturday Evening Post" published "Little Conservationists,"
"Mountain-Top Weather," "The Forest Fire," "Insects in the Forest,"
"Doctor Woodpecker," and "The Fate of a Tree Seed." "Suburban Life"
published "Rob of the Rockies" and "Little Boy Grizzly"; and
"Recreation" "Harvest Time with Beavers."

                                                            E. A. M.




Contents


  Racing an Avalanche                    1
  Little Conservationists               17
  Harvest Time with Beavers             49
  Mountain-Top Weather                  69
  Rob of the Rockies                    91
  Sierra Blanca                        107
  The Wealth of the Woods              121
  The Forest Fire                      137
  Insects in the Forest                171
  Dr. Woodpecker, Tree-Surgeon         191
  Little Boy Grizzly                   205
  Alone with a Landslide               221
  The Maker of Scenery and Soil        245
  A Rainy Day at the Stream's Source   265
  The Fate of a Tree Seed              289
  In a Mountain Blizzard               307
  A <DW40> in Fur                      321
  The Estes Park Region                335
  Index                                351




Illustrations


  _The Home of the Whirlwind_ (page 78)                 _Frontispiece_
        _Near the top of Long's Peak._

  _A Snow-Slide Region_                                              6
        _Near Telluride, Colorado._

  _Mt. Meeker_                                                      20

  _A Beaver House in Winter_                                        38
        _Lily Lake, Estes Park._

  _A Beaver Canal_                                                  56
        _Length, 334 feet; average width, 26 inches; average
        depth, 15 inches._

  _Aspens cut by Beaver_                                            64
        _On <DW72> of Mt. Meeker._

  _Wind-blown Trees at Timber-Line_                                 76
        _Long's Peak._

  _Sierra Blanca in Winter_                                        110

  _Spanish Moss_                                                   124
        _Lake Charles, Louisiana._

  _A Forest Fire on the Grand River_                               140
        _Near Grand Lake, Colorado._

  _A Yellow Pine, Forty-Seven Years after it had been killed by
   Fire_                                                           154
        _Estes Park._

  _A Tree killed by Mistletoe and Beetles_                         184
        _Estes Park._

  _Woodpecker Holes in a Pine injured by Lightning_                198
        _Estes Park._

  _Johnny and Jenny_                                               210

  _Near the Top of Mt. Coxcomb_                                    228

  _Court-House Rock_                                               242

  _The Hallett Glacier_                                            250

  _A Crevasse_                                                     260
        _Hallett Glacier._

  _Among the Clouds_                                               