Table of Contents

Farm Boy on the Kansas Frontier; Adolescent among the Mountains; Self-Discovery Begins; From Mines to Muir; The Adventure Seeker; The Budding Naturalist; A Woodsman Ponders Politics; Enos Mills, Longs Peak Guide; Nature Instructs: Self-Improvement Through Play; Longs Peak Inn: "Higher than any Hotel in the Alps"; The Snowman: Mills and Western Water; Mountain Folks of the Rockies: Mills Discovers Hidden Heroes; Colorado Forests: "A Picturesque Remnant and Melancholy Ruin"; Champion of Trees: Mills Lectures the Nation; Mills at Forty: Books, Politics, Domestic Strife; The Battle to Create a National Park; From Park Publicist to Park Critic; Mills vs Monopoly: "The Acme of Human Tyranny"; The Final Years and Early Death; Romantic Hero in a Real World; Enos Mills the Naturalist: A Vanishing Breed; Nature's Interpreter: Mills as Writer and Outdoor Educator; Enos Mills in the Stream of Twentieth-Century Conservation; Index.

About the Author

Alexander Drummond is a writer and former director of publications for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Reviews

"[A] full, fair, and balanced account."
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"[A] work both accessible and significant."
"Western Historical Quarterly""

"[A] work both accessible and significant."
--"Western Historical Quarterly"