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THE ADVENTURES OF A NATURE GUIDE. Mills, Enos A. 1920 1st edition SIGNED by Elizabeth Burnell
By Mills, Enos A.
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NY, Doubleday, 1920, 1st edition. 271 pages, illustrated with B & W photographs by the author. Rebound in green cloth, Near Fine condition.
 
This copy is SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Elizabeth Burnell, the first woman guide on Longs' Peak, to a client. Also in a rear pocket is a postcard/photo by Enos Mills, with a handwritten certification by Burnell that her client, Helen Donnelly climbed Longs Peak on July 16, 1925. Burnell was married to Shep Burnell, who climbed Longs Peak 800-900 times.
 
In 1917 Elizabeth F. Burnell became the first nature guide licensed by the Rocky Mountain National Park. She became the first woman guide on Longs Peak. Her sister, Esther Burnell, married Enos Mills and ran the Longs Peak Inn after his death.
 
Born in 1870, in Kansas, Enos Mills was a sickly child whose parents eventually sent him to Estes Park with the hope that his health would improve there.  He stayed in Estes Park at the ranch of his relative Elkhanah Lamb.  Carlyle Lamb took Enos on his first climb up Long’s Peak, and taught him the craft of the mountain guide.

During his stay, he spent much time wandering the area, and picked a spot across from the ranch to build a small cabin, which he finished in two summers.  This is now a museum run by the Mills descendents (see below for a link to their website).

Enos bought the Lamb ranch and renamed it the Long’s Peak Inn where hundreds of tourists stayed comfortably over the years  He guided many of his visitors up Long’s Peak, and made hundreds of trips to the top during his lifetime.

Mills met John Muir in 1889 on a trip to San Francisco, and established a friendship.  Muir had an enormous impact on Mills life.  During the off season, he traveled around the country promoting conservation, and setting aside areas for future generations.  It was on one of these lecture tours that he met Esther his wife to be.  Mills is widely credited with being the “father of Rocky Mountain National Park”, established in 1915.

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