3nbe;c 



Horses, return, 115-11S; Midget, 119- 



128. 

 Hotel, ejected from a, 11. 



Ice, fine arts of, 12. 



Kinnikinick, a plant pioneer, 171-175 ; 

 its nursery for trees, 175, 176 ; growth 

 of, 176, 177 ; flowers and fruit of, 177; 

 as a bed, 177, 178; a legend of, 178, 

 179; reclaiming work of, 180. 



Lakes, 235, 239, 240. 



Lead Mountain, 9. 



Leadville, 125. 



Lion, mountain, 6, 20, 23 ; an epicure, 9, 

 10; tracked by a, 10. 



Long's Peak, 15, 84; a climb up, with 

 a little girl, 99-1 11; summit of, 109, 

 no; Scotch and the young lady 

 on, 138-141; a winter climb with 

 Scotch, 142-147 ; birds on summit of, 

 158. 



Loveland, 91. 



Mammals, 237. 



Medicine Bow National Forest, 23. 



Medicine-men, 10, n. 



Mesa Verde, 31, 48, 49. 



Moonlight, the mountains by, 254-256. 



Mt. Coxcomb, 244 ; camping on the 



slope of, 246-254, 256. 

 Mt. Lincoln, n, 123. 

 Mt. Richthofen, 93. 

 Mt. Silverheels, 120, 121. 

 Mt. Wetterhorn, 244. 



Ouzel, water, 100-102, 152, 153, 158, 

 159. 



Park, a Rocky Mountain, 238-244. 

 Pine, nursed by kinnikinick, 175, 176. 

 Pine, lodge-pole, its names, 183 ; de- 



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scription of, 183 ; its habit of growth, 

 183, 184 ; its aggressive character, 

 184; distribution of, 184, 185, 20S ; 

 its method of dispersing its seeds, 

 185-187, 191 ; growth of, 187, 18S, 

 193, 194; as a colonist and pioneer, 

 189 ; cones embedded in, 1S9, 190 ; 

 sunlight necessary to, 190 ; fire in a 

 forest of, 191, 192; enemies of, 193; 

 uses of, 193; value of, 193-195. 



Pine, Western yellow, a thousand-year- 

 old, 31-50; habits of the, 200-204 ; 

 character of the, 240. 



Pinus fiexilis, 1S8, 208. 



Plants, of the summit-slopes, 235, 

 236. 



Potentilla, 208. 



Poudre Lakes, 86. 



Poudre Valley, flood in, 83, 95. 



Ptarmigan, 9, 107, 153, 158. 



Quail, a pet, 161-167. 



Rabbit, snowshoe, 9. 



Rex, a St. Bernard dog, 160, 164-167. 



Rock, easily eroded, 246. 



Rock-formations, grotesque and beau- 

 tiful, 245, 246. 



Rocky Mountains, individuality of , 213 ; 

 character of, 233, 234. 



Schoolhouse, a mountain, 13. 



Sheep, mountain, 9 ; a flock of, 78. 



Silence, 254. 



Snow, tracks in, 9. 



Snow-cornice, breaking through a, 17. 



Snow-fall, 7. 



Snow-slides, 19, 20; an adventure with 

 a snow-slide, 24, 25. 



Snowstorm, a, 8. 



Solitaire, 153-155. 



Specimen Mountain, electrical pheno- 

 mena on, 8S-92. 



