Colorado -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Outdoor books; Rocky Mountain National Park (Colo.) -- History; Rocky Mountains
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 Cañon, 300.
Cheyenne Mountain, 299.
Chicago Lake, 157.
Chickadees, 273.
Chinook wind, the, 69-75, 269.
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 proprietorship, 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, 110, 111, 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;
winter 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, 112, 113.
Fir, alpine, 61.
Flat-Top Mountain, 44, 341.
Florissant, 298, 299.
Flowers, at timber-line, 65;
of mountain-summits, 116-120;
on Pike's Peak, 308, 309.
Forest Cañon, 341.
Forest fires, records of, 125-128;
resistance of various trees to fire, 128-130;
injury to Southern hardwood forests, 131;
antiquity, 131;
a record in a redwood, 131-133;
origins, 133-135, 139;
following a fire, 135-140;
effect on animal life, 136, 137, 142;
up and down slopes, 140, 141;
heat at a distance, 141;
varying speed, 141, 142;
brilliant displays, 142-145;
cause of some mountain parks, 233, 234.
Forest Reserves, should be kept separate from National Parks, 326-329.
Forester, and scenery, 328, 329.
Fossil-beds, 298, 299.
Fox, silver, 109.
Frémont, John C., 28;
quoted, 231.
Game, big, in deep snow, 259-268;
yarding, 262-265;
winter food, 265, 266;
bunching habit, 267, 268.
Gentians, 342.
Glacier Creek, 340.
Glacier Gorge, 23, 43, 158, 338-340;
scenery, 349.
Glacier meadows. _See_ Meadows.
Glaciers, as makers of lake-basins, 150-153;
in Colorado, 153;
in the Rocky Mountain National Park, 337, 338;
glacial records in the Rocky Mountain National Park, 338-340.
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