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Enos A. Mills
of the Rockies - Esther
Burnell Mills & Hildegarde Hawthorne. The only biography
on Enos A. Mills available in paperback. Contains exerpts of
Enos' writings, nineteen photographs from the Enos Mills Cabin
archives, and a letter from Hildegarde Hawthorne. From the New
York Times Book review: "Enos Mills, like John Muir, is associated with
the western mountains of the United States and with the preservation of
forests and natural life of all kinds...beginning when, at 14, he set
forth from the family
home in Kansas for the Rockies, a goal he had long dreamed of reaching.
The building of his little cabin in sight of Long's Peak near Estes
Park... He tried mining at Butte and after a long period
traveling and exploring on the Pacific Coast, where he met Muir, and a
lifelong friendship began. He was 'Colorado Snow Observer' for some
time, and it was during his many mountaineerng trips in that
State that
he took his famous ride on an avalanche, ending up, after 800 feet,
safe on the shore of Chasm Lake. His
efforts on behalf of the national parks fill the last part of the book.
Throughout there are delightful bits of description of Mills's
observation of wild life--how he watched the beavers cutting trees in
the night, near his first little cabin, and brought up a family of
bluebirds when the parents were killed... This accurate and
straightforward account of the author's life will increase the number
of those who enjoy his books." Click
here to read "Chapter One: the Call of the Rockies".
Paperback $19.95 200 pages.
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