Index
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Alma, 119, 127.
Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi. See Kinnikinick.
Aspen, 204-206, 208.
Bears, vapor from a bear, 20;
a bear and her cubs, 79;
prospectors besieged by, 217-229;
feeding on choke-cherries, 237.
Beaver, 238, 242;
usefulness of, 53;
cutting trees, 54-56;
young, 56-58;
houses of, 57;
granary of, 58;
tools of, 58, 59;
dam-building, 59, 60;
growth of a dam, 61;
the dam a highway, 61;
influence of dams on stream-flow, 61-64;
dams catching and holding soil, 64-67;
value of, 67.
Birds, Rocky Mountain, abundance of, 151, 152, 237;
various species of, 152-159;
song of, 159;
a pet quail, 160-167;
of a mountain park, 241, 242.
Boulder, a lava, 247-249.
Cabin, a night in a deserted, 22, 23.
Camp-fires, 5, 6, 77;
the spell of the camp-fire, 256, 257.
Camping outfit, 4.
Carpenter, Prof. L. G., 4, 83.
Chambers Lake, 93.
Chickadee, 155.
Chipmunk, 242.
Columbine, 208.
Cottonwood, broad-leaf, 200.
Cottonwood, narrow-leaf, 200.
Coyotes, 77, 242;
Scotch and the, 133-138;
usefulness of, 237.
Crested Butte, 7.
Crow, 156-158.
Deer, 9.
Dog, the story of a collie, 131-147;
a St. Bernard and a pet quail, 160, 164-167.
Edwinia, 208.
Electrical phenomena, in winter, 26;
before the Poudre flood, 83-95.
Fir, balsam (Abies lasiocarpa), 207, 208.
Fir, Douglas. See Spruce, Douglas.
Fires, forest, 12, 14;
and the lodge-pole pine, 186, 187, 191, 192;
causes of, 209;
effects of, 209, 210;
Indian tradition of a "Big Fire," 249, 250.
Flowers, above timber-line, 211-213;
of a mountain park, 241.
Forestry, an address on, 13, 14.
Gem Lake, 240.
Geneva Park, 217.
Geologist, a night with a, 247-252.
Girl, climbing Long's Peak with an eight-year-old, 99-111.
Glaciation, 234, 235, 243.
Glaciers, 243.
Grand Ditch Camp, 93.
Grand Lake, 14, 15, 22.
Ground-hog, 110, 237.
Grouse, 9.
Hague's Peak, 84.
Hoosier Pass, 119, 123.
Horses, return, 115-118;
Midget, 119-128.
Hotel, ejected from a, 11.
Ice, fine arts of, 12.
Kinnikinick, a plant pioneer, 171-175;
its nursery for trees, 175, 176;
growth of, 176, 177;
flowers and fruit of, 177;
as a bed, 177, 178;
a legend of, 178, 179;
reclaiming work of, 180.
Lakes, 235, 239, 240.
Lead Mountain, 9.
Leadville, 125.
Lion, mountain, 6, 20, 23;
an epicure, 9, 10;
tracked by a, 10.
Long's Peak, 15, 84;
a climb up, with a little girl, 99-111;
summit of, 109, 110;
Scotch and the young lady on, 138-141;
a winter climb with Scotch, 142-147;
birds on summit of, 158.
Loveland, 91.
Mammals, 237.
Medicine Bow National Forest, 23.
Medicine-men, 10, 11.
Mesa Verde, 31, 48, 49.
Moonlight, the mountains by, 254-256.
Mt. Coxcomb, 244;
camping on the slope of, 246-254, 256.
Mt. Lincoln, 11, 123.
Mt. Richthofen, 93.
Mt. Silverheels, 120, 121.
Mt. Wetterhorn, 244.
Ouzel, water, 100-102, 152, 153, 158, 159.
Park, a Rocky Mountain, 238-244.
Pine, nursed by kinnikinick, 175, 176.
Pine, lodge-pole, its names, 183;
description of, 183;
its habit of growth, 183, 184;
its aggressive character, 184;
distribution of, 184, 185, 208;
its method of dispersing its seeds, 185-187, 191;
growth of, 187, 188, 193, 194;
as a colonist and pioneer, 189;
cones embedded in, 189, 190;
sunlight necessary to, 190;
fire in a forest of, 191, 192;
enemies of, 193;
uses of, 193;
value of, 193-195.
Pine, Western yellow, a thousand-year-old, 31-50;
habits of the, 200-204;
character of the, 240.
Pinus flexilis, 188, 208.
Plants, of the summit-slopes, 235, 236.
Potentilla, 208.
Poudre Lakes, 86.
Poudre Valley, flood in, 83, 95.
Ptarmigan, 9, 107, 153, 158.
Quail, a pet, 161-167.
Rabbit, snowshoe, 9.
Rex, a St. Bernard dog, 160, 164-167.
Rock, easily eroded, 246.
Rock-formations, grotesque and beautiful, 245, 246.
Rocky Mountains, individuality of, 213;
character of, 233, 234.
Schoolhouse, a mountain, 13.
Sheep, mountain, 9;
a flock of, 78.
Silence, 254.
Snow, tracks in, 9.
Snow-cornice, breaking through a, 17.
Snow-fall, 7.
Snow-slides, 19, 20;
an adventure with a snow-slide, 24, 25.
Snowstorm, a, 8.
Solitaire, 153-155.
Specimen Mountain, electrical phenomena on, 88-92.
Spruce, Colorado blue or silver, 207, 208.
Spruce, Douglas, or Douglas fir, 188, 189, 203, 204;
a large stump, 249.
Spruce, Engelmann, 188, 189, 208, 241, 249;
the story of a forest of, 250-252.
Squirrel, Douglas, 242;
as a nurseryman, 34, 35;
and the old pine, 35, 47;
character of, 79;
cutting off and storing cones, 102-104.
Thrush, Audubon's hermit, 152, 154.
Timber-line, 104-107, 208, 209.
Trap Creek, 94, 95.
Trees, of the Rocky Mountains, 199-211, 236. See also individual species.
Turret-Top, 245.
Uncompahgre National Forest, 244.
Uncompahgre Peak, 244.
Uncompahgre region, wonders of the, 244-256.
Wind, 253.
Wolves, an adventure with, 71-75.
Woodpecker, Texas, 39, 40.
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