Trailblazer

Enos A. Mills (1870–1922) was the driving force behind the 1915 founding of Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, which ensured the preservation and ongoing public enjoyment of one of the United States' great wilderness regions. Mills recognized visitors' need for guidance and education, and in this evocative, easy-to-read autobiography he tells of his experiences as a homesteader and nature guide.
 The great naturalist John Muir encouraged Mills to assist in the promotion of parks and forests by conducting close observations of wildlife and writing and lecturing about his findings. Mills took his mentor's advice to heart, producing more than a dozen books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. He also trained both men and women as nature guides, creating a new professional role for females during an era when such opportunities were rare, and he paved the way for what the National Park Service today terms "interpretation." Featuring all the illustrations from the original book, this edition transports readers to the unspoiled natural beauty of the Rockies under the expertise of one of the region's greatest advocates.

Enos Mills (1870–1922) left his native Kansas at the age of 14 for Colorado, where he became an innkeeper and homesteader, nature guide, and national park advocate. The "Father of Rocky Mountain National Park," he was active in the development of the National Park Service, training nature guides and paving the way for modern-day park ranger interpretation.

CONTENTS
I. Snow Blinded on the Summit
II. Waiting in the Wilderness
III. Winter Mountaineering
IV. Trees at Timberline
V. Wind-Rapids on the Heights
VI. The Arctic Zone of High Mountains
VII. Naturalist Meets Prospector
VIII. The White Cyclone
IX. Lightning and Thunder
X. Landmarks
XI. Children of My Trail School
XII. A Day with a Nature Guide
XIII. Play and Pranks at Wild Folk
XIV. Censored Natural History News
XV. Harriet--Little Mountain Climber
XVI. Evolution of Nature Guiding
XVII. Development of a Woman Guide

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Crater Lake
The White Summit of the Rockies
Climbing Snowy Steeps
Snow before the First Freeze
A Flower-filled Opening in an Aspen Grove
Sunset on the Continental Divide
Spruces in Four Feet of Snow
Sand-blasted Limber Pines
Englemann Spruce--Shaped and Sheltered by a Boulder
In a Wind Rapid
Cloud Scenery from the Narrows on Long's Peak
Across Wild Basin to Long's Peak
Ptarmigan--"Eskimo Chickens"
Gentleness and Grandeur of the Rocky Mountain National Park
Lodgepole Pines Cut by Beavers
In the Land of Snow-slides
In a Blizzard on the Summit of the Continental Divide
The Home of the White Cyclone
Mount Copeland and Copeland Lake, Colorado
Long's Peak and Tahosa Valley 
Where Flowers Crowd the Snows
A Newly Made Beaver House and Pond
In a Trail School Old and Young Enthusiastically Follow a Nature Guide
Black Bear Cubs, Sequoia National Park
The Classic Mariposa Lily of the Western Prairies
Harriet Peters on "Top"
Natural Bridge, Utah. A Product of Erosion
Squaw Grass or Bear Grass, Mount Spokane
The Outlook of the Woman Guide
Winter Haunts of the Water-ouzel
The Homesteader and Nature Guide