This was Enos A. Mills' first major book, originally published by Houghton Mifflin. By 1909 he had climbed Long's Peak 257 times, and this book includes one of his most memorable trips to the top with little Harriet Peters. He also tells of his days as a Colorado Snow Observer, a canine argument between his dog Scotch and a pack of cunning coyotes, and a tale of two prospectors besieged in their cabin by three black bears. Fourteen stories round out this entertaining book. "Extraordinary interest attaches to his narratives of exciting adventure with snow slides, wild beasts and wild weather....

Have you ever been hiking and wondered how some trees grow into fantastic and sculptural shapes while ones right next to them grow straight? Enos A. Mills wrote this story to explain why and how that happens. It did not see a wide release in the 1920s when he wrote it, but his widow, Esther Burnell Mills, published a small volume in the 1930s and gave them to return guests at Longs Peak Inn as Christmas presents. We have republished the story and added two speeches he gave when he was a Government Lecturer on Forestry for the USDA, illustrated with historical photos, and letters from people...