![]() ![]() It gives a clearer idea of the Rockies, their trees, flowers, plant life, birds, and beasts that may be gleaned from any other volume of its kind”. ![]() Mills’s rare opportunities for most intimate association with Dame Nature in all her moods. Springfield (Mass.) Republican “This book will be read with vast pleasure by innumerable nature-lovers who have lacked Mr. There is not an uninteresting page between the covers”. Mills knows his subject as well as any writer in the country. He communicates to the reader something of his own sense of the beauties of the mountains and the delight of tramping among them.” Philadelphia Press "The book is one which lovers of Nature should read one which all who know the majesty of the continental divide will read with interest. “Extraordinary interest attaches to his narratives of exciting adventure with snow slides, wild beasts and wild weather. Fourteen stories round out this entertaining book. He also tells of his days as a Colorado Snow Observer, a canine argument between his dog Scotch and a pack of cunning coyotes, and a tale of two prospectors besieged in their cabin by three black bears. ![]() By 1909 he had climbed Long's Peak 257 times, and this book includes one of his most memorable trips to the top with little Harriet Peters. Mills' first major book, originally published by Houghton Mifflin. ![]()
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