In Beaver World

by Enos A. Mills

Index

• Accidents, [144].
• Age, [14], [193].
• Air, blanket over pond, [202], [203].
• American Fur Company, [49].
• Arkansas River, [218].
• Astor, John Jacob, [49].
• Attitudes, [6].
• Audubon, John James, [53].
• Autumn activities, beginning of, [200].
• Bad Lands, [65].
• Basins, food, [108]. _See also_ Wells.
• Beaver, a tame, [22-25].
• Beaver, aged, of the Spruce Tree Colony, [83], [84], [95], [96]; of Lily Lake, [102-105]; migrating to the Moraine Colony, [167], [168].
• Bedding, [122], [123].
• Bierstadt Moraine, [140].
• Bobcat, [35].
• Burrows, [110], [111]; a substitute for houses, [127], [128].
• Canada, emblem of, [43].
• Canals, [77], [78], [88], [141], [145-149], [187]; at Lily Lake, [103], [104]; importance, [105]; use of excavated material, [105], [106]; forms of, [106], [107]; system at Three Forks, Mont., [107-111]; dug in winter, [206].
• Castoreum, [43], [44].
• Chasm Lake, [142].
• Civilization, the beaver’s influence on, [47-49].
• Color, [8].
• Colorado River, [25], [50].
• Coöperation, [171].
• Coyotes, [23], [102], [161-163], [166].
• Cry, [27].
• Cutting trees, methods of, [10-12], [31], [32]; intelligence shown in, [57], [91]; operations observed, [86], [90-96]; accidents in, [144].
• Dams, materials, [65-67]; construction, [66], [67]; uses, [69]; growth, [69], [70]; new and old, [70], [71]; discharge from, [71], [72]; not all beaver build, [72]; thoroughfares, [73]; effect on topography, [73], [74]; shape, [75-77]; an interesting dam, [76-78]; waterproofing, [78]; dimensions of a long dam, [78], [79]; dimensions of other dams, [86]; across canals, [108-110]; the dead-wood dam, [143-150]; across a drainage ditch, [180], [181]; across an irrigation ditch, [189], [190]; a homesteader’s dam completed by beaver, [192], [193]; effect on stream-flow, [213-217].
• Day, working by, [33], [94], [156].
• Death, [14].
• Ditch, struggle over a, [179-182].
• Ditches. _See_ Canals.
• Diver, the young beaver, [22-25].
• Domestication, [25].
• Dunraven, Lord, [179].
• Ears, [7].
• Enemies, [14]; times of danger from, [198].
• Engineering, [139-150].
• Erosion, checked by beaver, [214], [217], [218].
• Errors, [67], [68].
• Estes Park, [179].
• Europe, the beaver in, [40], [41].
• Exploration, [168], [169].
• Eyesight, [8].
• Fabulous accounts, [53].
• Feet, uses of, [5], [6]; form of, [8].
• Feigning injury, [25], [26].
• Felling trees. _See_ Cutting trees.
• Fence posts, [30].
• Fighting, [19], [20], [34], [35].
• Fire, [158-163].
• Fish, water-holes for, [214].
• Flat-top, a beaver pioneer, [175], [176], [183-193].
• Floods, [206], [207]; damage prevented by beaver, [214], [216].
• Food, [10], [84], [205].
• Food-piles, [12], [13], [88], [89], [97], [150], [169].
• Fossil beaver, [40].
• Fox, [199].
• Fruit trees, [30].
• Geographical distribution, [40-42], [49], [50].
• Gold, [218].
• Grand Cañon, [25], [50].
• Hands, uses of, [5]; form of, [8].
• Harvest, a year’s, [97]; a large, [169].
• Harvest-gathering, [83-98], [148-150], [157], [158].
• Hearing, [8].
• Hearne, Samuel, quoted, [53].
• History, the beaver in, [41-44].
• Homesteader, a friendly, [190-193].
• Houses, building, [3]; occupants, [21]; dimensions, [86], [119], [120], [130], [131]; mud plastering, [97], [123-125]; construction, [119-123], [130], [131]; entrances, [119], [120]; situation, [120], [125-127]; burrows a substitute for, [127], [128]; a typical house, [130], [131]; ventilation, [132]; enlargement, [169-171]; security, [197], [198]; shaped to meet floods, [207].
• Hudson’s Bay Company, the, [48].
• Ice, a trouble of beaver existence, [126], [127]; a catastrophe caused by, [184-186]; on the pond, [200], [202-206]; casualties caused by, [207].
• Indians, their legends about the beaver, [39].
• Individuality, [35], [67].
• Industry, [36].
• Intelligence, [46], [57-60].
• Irrigation-ditches, [31].
• Island Colony, harvesting methods of, [92], [93].
• Jefferson River, [11], [78], [107], [108].
• Kingsford, William, his History of Canada, [48].
• Land, beaver seen on, [191], [192].
• Leadership, [20].
• Legends, [39].
• Lewis and Clark, [42].
• Life, the beaver’s, [14-16].
• Lily Lake, beaver at, [101-105]; beaver house at, [119]; the pioneer beaver of, [175-193]; description of, [178].
• Lily Mountain, [182].
• Lion, mountain, [160-162], [166].
• Local attachment, [141], [142].
• Long, Stephen Harriman, his Journal, [33].
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, his _Hiawatha_ quoted, [60], [61].
• Long’s Peak, [140], [153].
• Love ditty, [27].
• Majors, Alexander, his _Seventy Years on the Frontier_, [59], [60].
• Martin, Horace T., [49].
• Mating, [27].
• Medicine Bow Mountains, [197].
• Migration, [20], [21], [132], [133], [141], [161-163], [167-169], [175-177], [182], [183].
• Mischief, [30], [31].
• Moraine Colony, engineering of, [139], [142-150]; discovery and observation of, [153-158]; homes destroyed by fire, [158], [159]; migrating, [161-163]; new site, [163], [164]; old site resettled, [165]; later fortunes, [166-171].
• Morgan, Lewis H., his _American Beaver and his Works_, [54], [55], [58].
• Night, working at, [33].
• Northwestern Fur Company, [49].
• Old, the, [34].
• Outcasts, [34].
• Ouzel, water, [199].
• Parasites, [14].
• Physical make-up, [5-9], [68].
• Pipestone Creek, [11].
• Place-names taken from the beaver, [42], [43].
• Play, [29], [156], [157].
• Ponds, early abundance, [42]; size, [65], [86]; uses, [68], [69]; chains or clusters of, [74]; depth, [107]; canals in bottom, [107]; spring-filled, [113], [114]; lowering the level under ice, [202], [203]; draining, [208], [209]; effect on stream-flow, [213-217]; leaky reservoirs, [216].
• Population, changes in, [46], [47].
• Protection, [50], [217], [220], [221].
• Reason, evidences of, [57], [58].
• Romanes, George J., on the beaver, [58], [59].
• Sanitation, [208].
• Sawtooth Mountains, [66].
• Sediment, a problem of beaver life, [125], [126].
• Sheep, mountain, [192].
• Size, [7].
• Skins, [43], [44], [48], [49].
• Sleep, [122].
• Slides, [87], [112], [199].
• Smell, sense of, [7].
• Snake River, [25].
• Soil, the beaver’s conservation of, [214], [217-220].
• Sounds and silence, [19], [20], [23], [26], [27], [133], [134].
• Springs, use of, [204].
• Spruce Tree Colony, harvest time with, [83-98]; tunnels in, [113-115].
• Stream-flow, effect of beaver on, [72-74], [213-217].
• Strength, [9].
• Subways. _See_ Tunnels.
• Swimming, method of, [6].
• Tail, uses of, [5], [6], [11]; form and covering, [8]; signalling with, [24], [31], [96]; fabulous accounts of the uses of, [53].
• Teeth, [7-9].
• Three Forks, Montana, [42], [79]; canal system at, [107-111].
• Trails, [111], [112].
• Transportation of dam and food material, [86-90], [92], [93]; canals used in, [106-115]; trails and slides used in, [111], [112], [115]; tunnels used in, [112-115].
• Trappers, [164], [189-191].
• Traps, [35], [189].
• Trees, cutting. _See_ Cutting trees.
• Trimming trees, [12], [96].
• Trout, [205], [206].
• Tunnels, [85], [112-115], [198], [203], [206].
• Water. _See_ Stream-flow.
• Water-ouzel, [199].
• Water-supply, [85], [86].
• Weather-wisdom, [44-47].
• Weight, [7].
• Wells, food, [103], [104]. _See also_ Basins.
• Whistle, [26], [37].
• Wildcat, [35].
• Willow Creek, [176].
• Wind River, [102], [175], [182], [188].
• Winter, beaver life in, [197-209].
• Wolves, gray, [191], [197].
• Wood, dead, [143], [144].
• Work, accomplished by beaver, [3-5].
• Young, birth and care of, [27], [28]; growth and play of, [28].

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By Enos A. Mills
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