Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 42282-h.htm or 42282-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42282/42282-h/42282-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42282/42282-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://archive.org/details/inbeaverworld00milliala IN BEAVER WORLD +-----------------------------------------+ | By Enos A. Mills | | | | IN BEAVER WORLD. Illustrated. | | THE SPELL OF THE ROCKIES. Illustrated. | | WILD LIFE ON THE ROCKIES. Illustrated. | | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY | | BOSTON AND NEW YORK | +-----------------------------------------+ [Illustration: BEAVER WORLD] IN BEAVER WORLD by ENOS A. MILLS With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge Mdccccxiii Copyright, 1913, by Enos A. Mills All Rights Reserved Published March 1913 To J. Horace McFarland Preface This book is the result of beaver studies which cover a period of twenty-seven years. During these years I have rambled through every State in the Union and visited Mexico, Canada, and Alaska. In the course of these rambles notice was taken of trees, birds, flowers, glaciers, and bears, and studious attention devoted to the beaver. No opportunity for beaver study was missed, and many a long journey was made for the purpose of investigating the conditions in live colonies or in making measurements in the ruins of old ones. These investigations were made during every season of the year, and often a week was spent in one colony. I have seen beaver at work scores of times, and on a few occasions dozens at one time. Beaver have been my neighbors since I was a boy. At any time during the past twenty-five years I could go from my cabin on the slope of Long's Peak, Colorado, to a number of colonies within fifteen minutes. Studies were carried on in these near-by colonies in spring, summer, autumn, and winter.