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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