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 Canon, 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 ; di- 

 mensions, 86, 119, 120, 130, 131 ; 

 mud plastering, 97, 123-125 ; con- 

 struction, 119-123, 130, 131; en- 



trances, 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 01, 

 9 2 , 93- 



Jefferson River, u, 78, 107, 108. 



Kingsford, William, his History 

 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. 



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