Enos Mills' Colorado

By James H. Pickering

Book Overview

Rocky Mountain National Park owes its existence to the tenacity and vision of Enos Mills. The straightforward stories Mills told of his wilderness adventures with snow slides, wild beasts, and even wilder weather are exciting and fun-good reading on a quiet afternoon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555663672
• ISBN13: 9781555663674
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Johnson Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Stories from the Early Days in the Colorado Rockies

Through some sixteen books and countless short stories Enos Mills did as much as anyone else to define the image we have of the Colorado Rockies. His efforts did as much as anyone else to have part of this magnificant country set aside as the Rocky Mountain National Park. Mr. Pickering has put together this collection of nineteen of his stories that serve to describe his life better than any formal biography could. Here is the story of his wintertime trip in the high country of the mid-winter Rockies as a snow observer. His instructions for the first trip were 'make notes on those things that are likely to be of interest or value to the Department of Agriculture or the Weather Bureau, and to be careful not to lose his life.' His article 'Why We Need National Parks,' is as important and as fresh as anything that could be written today. A selection of photographs from the early nineteen hundreds greatly increases the understanding of the man and how he lived in this beautiful country.