Illustrations
Reading edition
Long's Peak from the East Frontispiece
A Man with a History 6
The Crest of the Continent in Winter, 13,000 Feet above Sea-Level 16
A Snow-Slide Track 20
A Veteran Western Yellow Pine 32
A Beaver-House 58
A Beaver-Dam in Winter 63
Lake Odessa 76
On the Heights 84
A Storm on the Rockies 94
Long's Peak from the Summit of Mt. Meeker 100
On the Tip-Top of Long's Peak 110
A Miner on a Return Horse 116
Scotch near Timber-Line 132
The Cloud-Capped Continental Divide 144
Ptarmigan 158
Summer at an Altitude of 12,000 Feet 178
A Typical Lodge-Pole Forest 184
Aspens 204
A Grove of Silver Spruce 208
Ouray, Colorado, a Typical Mining Town 218
Estes Park and the Big Thompson River from the Top of Mt. Olympus 238
In the Uncompahgre Mountains 244
A Grass-Plot among Engelmann Spruce 250