Index
Allen's Park, [339].
Andrews Glacier, [343].
Arapahoe Glacier, [251], [255], [260], [261], [343].
Arapahoe Peak, [260].
Ash, seeds, [296].
Aspen, after a fire, [160].
Aspen Gulch, [13-15].
Avalanches. See Rock avalanche, Snowslides.
Basswood, seeds, [300].
Bears, escaping from a forest fire, [143], [144];
a mother and cubs, [240].
Bears, black, two cubs and a forest fire, [144];
attacked by wasps, [180];
carrying pine cones, [301].
Bears, grizzly, and a forest fire, [144];
and roasted deer after the fire, [149], [150];
two pet cubs, [207-209];
the further history of Johnny, [209-219];
curiosity, [214];
agility, [215].
Beaver, the Moraine Colony, [19-46];
characteristics and usefulness, [19], [40], [41], [46], [47];
dams, [21], [31-34], [45], [53], [54];
houses, [21], [22], [31], [42], [44], [54];
felling trees, [21], [24], [25], [58-65];
harvest piles, [22], [41], [42], [56], [57], [65], [66];
coöperation, [22-24], [43], [44];
working by daylight, [23], [62];
play, [23];
transporting logs and branches, [23], [24], [54-62];
village destroyed by fire, [26], [27];
attacked by mountain lion, [28], [29], [35], [36];
attacked by coyote, [29], [30], [36];
journeying by water and by land, [30], [31];
migration from ruined village, [29-31];
raided by trappers, [31];
need of ponds, [34], [35];
house dynamited, [35];
young, [36], [37];
a migration witnessed, [38], [39];
aged beaver, [38], [39], [51], [52], [63-65];
explorations of old males, [39], [40];
the first conservationist, [40], [41];
making a new pond, [44], [45];
pitchy wood and dead wood avoided, [45], [46];
canals, [45], [56];
ford, [45], [52], [66];
the Spruce Tree Colony, [51-67];
tunnels, [53];
log slides, [54-56];
the Island Colony, [61], [62];
ready for winter, [66].
Beetles, depredations in forests, [174-181], [195].
Big Thompson River, [345].
Big tree, immune from insects, [173];
seeds, [299].
Bighorn. See Sheep, mountain.
Birds, of Estes Park, [347].
Blizzard, [311-316].
Borers, depredations in forests, [182], [195].
Camp-bird. See Jay, Rocky Mountain.
Camp-fires, as origins of forest fires, [152], [153], [155], [156].
Carpenter, Prof. L. G., on forests, [127].
Chapman, Frank M., [200].
Chasm Lake, [343].
Cherry, seed-sowing, [298], [299].
Chipmunk, [325].
Cimarron, [242].
Clouds, of mountain-tops, [80], [81];
a snow-cloud, [81-84].
Cocoanut, [302].
Conifers, seed-distribution, [297], [298].
Cottonwood, seeds, [296], [301].
Couple, elderly, in a log house, [110-112].
Court-House Rock, [242], [243].
Coyote, attacking beaver, [29], [30], [36];
fleeing from a forest-fire, [143];
after the fire, [149].
Deer, in a forest fire, [142], [143].
Dendroctonus, [196].
Dogs, story of a tramp dog, [93-105];
Scotch and the bear Johnny, [213];
Scotch in a mountain blizzard, [309-320].
Electrical storms, [85-88].
Elk, in a forest fire, [142].
Erosion, after forest fires, [165], [166];
by glaciers, [251];
a study of, [271], [272], [281-286].
Estes Park, glaciers in, [260], [338], [341-343];
attractions, [337], [338], [348];
forest fires, [339];
forests, [340], [341];
Long's Peak, [341-343];
lakes, [343], [344];
streams and cañons, [344], [345];
animal life, [346];
flowers, [346], [347];
birds, [347];
trails, [347].
Fern Lake, [347].
Fir, Douglas, [279].
Fires. See Forest Fires.
Flat-Top, [341], [347].
Flowers, of Estes Park, [346], [347].
Foot, an injured, [233], [234], [241-243].
Forest fires, watching, [139-170];
varying speed of, [141], [142], [167];
wild animals in, [142-145];
rarely make a clean sweep, [145], [146];
dead trees burning after, [146], [147];
extent, [147];
destroy humus, [148], [149];
loss of animal life in, [149];
storm of ashes after a fire, [150], [151];
upbuilding after, [152];
origins of, [152], [153], [155], [156], [162], [163], [176];
methods of fighting, [152], [153], [163-165];
trees standing after, [154], [158];
geysers of flame, [158], [159], [169];
duration of, [161], [162];
protection against, [163-165];
erosion after, [165], [166];
explosions of rock caused by, [169], [170];
interrelation with destructive insects, [173], [174], [186];
wood preserved by, [187].
Forests, as wood-producers, [124];
as water-distributors, [124], [125];
other uses, [125];
as moderators of climate, [125], [126];
as windbreaks, [126];
delaying evaporation, [126-129];
necessary to agriculture, [127], [128];
as reservoirs, [128-130];
as regulators of stream-flow, [130];
as makers of soil, [131], [132];
as bird-shelters, [132], [133];
as sanitary agents, [133];
evils following destruction of, [134];
preëminent in promoting the general welfare, [134], [135];
insect enemies of, [173-189];
observations of a forested and a deforested region during a rain, [267-287];
the forest floor, [273], [274].
Fort Garland, [112], [113], [118], [119].
Fungi, enemies of trees, [183], [184].
Fungus, false-tinder, [184].
Glacier Gorge, [341], [347].
Glaciers, work of, [247-250];
Muir and Henderson on, [250];
rate of movement, [251];
Arapahoe, [251], [255], [260], [261];
grinding and excavating powers, [251-253];
moraines, [253-255];
lakes made by, [253], [343];
strange freight, [255], [256];
mineral wealth, [256];
making soil, [257];
formation, [258], [259];
in the Rocky Mountains, [258], [260-263], [338], [341-343];
bergschlunds and crevasses, [260], [261];
pleasures of investigation, [263].
Grand Lake, [348].
Grand River, [309];
forest fires on, [140-153].
Granite Pass, wind in, [75-77].
Greenwood, Grace, [337].
Ground-hog, [282].
Grouse, fleeing from a forest fire, [144].
Hallett Glacier, [343].
Hallett Peak, [341].
Henderson, Junius, quoted, [250].
Horne's Peak, [102].
Ice, climbing with a dog over, [310], [314], [317-320].
Insects, in the forest, [173-189];
interrelation with forest-fires, [173], [174], [186];
beetles, [174-181];
weevils, [182];
borers, [182];
serial attacks, [182], [183];
interrelation with parasitic plants, [183], [184];
seriousness of their ravages, [185], [186], [189];
control of depredations, [187-189];
woodpeckers the enemies of, [193-204].
Ironwood, seeds, [300].
Jay, crested, [149].
Jay, Rocky Mountain, or gray jay, or camp-bird, [149], [180], [223].
Lake City, [223].
Landslides, a night and a day of, [232-239];
on a deforested slope, [281], [282];
a liquefied landslide, [283], [284]. See Rock avalanche.
Leadville, [98-100].
Lightning, [85], [86];
trees struck by, [175], [176], [278].
Linden, seeds, [300].
Lion, mountain, attacking beaver, [28], [29], [35], [36];
adventure, [102];
fleeing from a forest fire, [143].
Little Cimarron River, [228], [234], [240-242].
Locke Vale, [347].
Locust, honey, seeds and pods, [299], [300].
Log, with a cargo of seeds, [292-294].
Long's Peak, [310], [338];
wind on, [75-78];
area of summit, [78];
altitude, [85];
thunder-storms on, [85];
forest fires seen from, [140];
Mills Moraine, [263], [342];
glaciers, [341];
boulder field, [342];
geological history, [342], [343].
McHenry Peak, [341].
Magpie, [149], [347].
Mangrove, seeding, [302].
Maple, red, seeds, [296].
Maple, silver, seeds, [295].
Middle Park, [339], [344].
Mills Moraine, [263], [342], [343].
Mississippi River, origin of its mud, [285];
a seed-laden log on, [292-294].
Missouri River, its channel full of dissolved Rocky Mountains, [284].
Mt. Barrat, [341].
Mt. Coxcomb, crumbling character of, [228-230];
a night climb in the rain, [228-240].
Mt. Hallett, [341].
Mt. Meeker, [207], [342].
Mt. Teller, [88].
Muir, John, quoted, [128], [250], [327].
Night, mountain-climbing by, [226-232].
Nuthatch, [199], [200].
Nuts, [293-295].
Orton, Edward, Jr., quoted, [263].
Otis Peak, [341].
Ouzel. See Water-ouzel.
Parks, mountain, openness caused by forest fires, [339].
Persimmons, [299].
Pine, lodge-pole, [153], [157], [160];
spectacular death of, [158], [159];
destroyed by beetles, [178];
seeding, [298].
Pine, Western yellow, as a fire-fighter, [160], [161];
killed by beetles, [174-176].
Poisoning, from a spring, [109-111].
Poudre River, [95].
Ptarmigan, [347].
Rabbit-Ear Range, [140].
Rain, effects on forested and deforested slopes, [267-287].
Ridgway, [226], [233], [243].
Robin, [270].
Rock avalanche, [113-115].
St. Vrain River, a rainy day at the source, [267-287];
the two branches, [271].
San Juan Mountains, snowslides in, [3-15].
San Luis Valley, [117].
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, [101], [109].
Scotch, the collie, and the bear cub Johnny, [213];
in a mountain blizzard, [309-320].
Seeds of trees, many devices for sowing, [291];
log cargo of, [292-294];
nuts, [293-295];
winged, [295-298];
pulp-covered, [298], [299];
other wind-carried seeds, [299], [300];
hooked, [301];
carried by animals, [301];
catapulted, [301];
water-carried, [302];
prodigality of nature in regard to, [302-305].
Sheep, mountain, or bighorn, in a whirlwind, [72], [73];
in a forest fire, [143].
Sierra Blanca, [110];
climbing, [112-117].
Snow slides, studying, [3];
an adventure with a slide, [4-15].
Snow-storm, climbing above a, [81-83];
a mountain blizzard, [311-316].
Solitaire, [287], [347].
Specimen Mountain, [347].
Spring, a poisonous, [109].
Spruce, Engelmann, [153], [155], [273].
Squirrel, Frémont, an interview, [276], [277];
character and manners, [323], [324];
food and harvesting, [324-329], [333];
hibernation, [329], [330];
homes, [330];
young, [330];
longevity, [330], [333];
story of a pair, [330-334].
Sycamore, seeds, [297].
Taylor Peak, [341].
Thatch-Top, [341].
Thompson Cañon, [344], [345].
Thrush, Audubon's hermit, [287], [347].
Trees, relations to mankind, [123], [134], [135];
as sanitary agents, [133];
medicines and foods produced by, [133], [134];
uprooted and transported by a landslide, [236-239];
up a tree in a storm, [276-278];
seeds and seeding, [291-305].
See also Forests.
Turret-Top, [243].
Uncompahgre Mountains, trip through, [223-243].
Uncompahgre Peak, [224].
Wasps, feeding on grubs, [179];
and bear, [180].
Water-ouzel, [269-271], [347].
Weather, of alpine zone of Rocky Mountains, [71-89].
Weevils, in forest-trees, [182], [191].
Wet Mountain valley, [101].
Wild Basin, [347].
Willows, seeds, [296].
Wind River, [347].
Winds, on mountain-tops, [72-80];
drying powers of, [126], [127];
a mountain blizzard, [311-316].
Witch-hazel, flowers and seeds, [301].
Woodpecker, Batchelder, [197].
Woodpecker, downy, the most useful bird citizen, [193], [200];
a downy at work, [201-204].
Woodpecker, hairy, [197], [198].
Woodpeckers, value as destroyers of noxious insects, [193-198];
holes, [198], [199];
winter lodgings, [199];
nesting-holes, [199], [200].
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