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IN BEAVER WORLD Mills, Enos A. 1913 1st ed Rare DJ
By Mills, Enos A.
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Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1913, 1st edition. 228 pages, illustrated with photos by the author. Mills at one point says about the beaver, 'The beaver often does a large amount of work in a short time. Although the beaver is a tireless and an effective worker, he does not work unless there is a need to do so. Usually his summer is a rambling vacation spent away from home.' Rare unchipped DJ, DJ has a small stain on the cover and spine, otherwise unchipped and Fine. Book is utterly Fine.
 
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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