3nb^ 



Buckwheat, wild, 118. 

 Buds, as food, 272. 



Cameron's Cone, 309. 



Camp Bird Mine, 172, 173. 



Camp-bird. See Jay, Rocky 

 Mountain. 



Camp-fire, the, 245. 



Canada, National Parks, 315, 

 326, 327. 



Chapin, Frederick H., 347; 

 quoted, 348. 



Chapman, Frank M., 59. 



Chasm Lake, 162, 339, 350, 351. 



Cheyenne Canon, 300. 



Cheyenne Mountain, 299. 



Chicago Lake, 157. 



Chickadees, 273. 



Chinook wind, the, 69-75, 2 ^9- 



Chipmunk, big, 289, 290. 



Chipmunk, busy, 290, 344. 



Chipmunks, and heavy snow, 

 270; hibernation, 271, 282, 

 283; in the author's yard, 277- 

 291; persistency, 280; tunnels, 

 280, 281; bedding, 281, 282; 

 bathing, 282; drinking, 282; 

 winter stores, 282-284; a 

 frightened young one, 284; 

 and weasels, 285; and coyotes, 

 285, 286; sense of proprietor- 

 ship, 286; the young, 287, 288; 

 food, 289; mobbed by birds, 

 289, 290; species, 290; enemies, 

 290; and children, 290, 291. 



Columbine, 119, 342. 



Conservation Commission, 330. 



Continental Divide, 335, 345. 



Cony, or pika, no, ill, 344. 



Coyotes, 136; and chipmunks, 

 285, 286. 



Crags, the, 44, 45. 



Cricket, the return horse, 169- 



183. 

 Crow, Clarke, 64, 199. 



Death Valley, 316. 



Deer, above timber-line, 109; in 

 deep snow, 259, 260; yarding 

 habit, 262-265; a herd killed 

 by a mountain lion, 265; win- 

 ter food, 265; summer and 

 winter ranges, 265, 266. 



Dickinson, Anna, 347. 



Eagle, faithful to its dead mate, 



137- 

 Eagle, golden, 102, 115. 

 Elk, summer and winter ranges, 



265, 266; preyed upon by 



wolves, 266. 

 Estes Park, description, 232, 233. 



Fall River Road, 345. 



Fern Lake, 350. 



Finch, rosy, brown-capped, 1 12, 



"3- m 



Fir, alpine, 61. 



Flat-Top Mountain, 44, 341. 



Florissant, 298, 299. 



Flowers, at timber-line, 65; of 

 mountain-summits, 1 16-120; 

 on Pike's Peak, 308, 309. 



Forest Canon, 341. 



Forest fires, records of, 125-128; 

 resistance of various trees to 

 fire, 128-130; injury to South- 

 ern hardwood forests, 131; an- 

 tiquity, 131; a record in a red- 

 wood, 131-133; origins, 133- 

 135. x 39; following a fire, 135- 

 140; effect on animal life, 136, 



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