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^f^ms book contains the record of a few of the 

 ^^ many happy days and novel experiences 

 which I have had in the wilds. For more than 

 twenty years it has been my good fortune to live 

 most of the time with nature, on the mountains 

 of the West. I have made scores of long exploring 

 rambles over the mountains in every season of 

 the year, a nature-lover charmed with the birds 

 and the trees. On my later excursions I have 

 gone alone and without firearms. During three 

 succeeding winters, in which I was a Government 

 Experiment Officer and called the " State Snow 

 Observer," I scaled many of the higher peaks 

 of the Rockies and made many studies on the 

 upper slopes of these mountains. 



"Colorado Snow Observer" was printed in 

 part in T/ie YoutJis Companion for May i8, 

 1905, under the title of " In the Mountain 

 Snows " ; " The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine " 



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