In Beaver World

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Autumn activities, beginning of, 200.

    Bad Lands, 65.

    Basins, food, 108. _See also_ Wells.

    Beaver, a tame, 22-25.

    Beaver, aged, of the Spruce Tree Colony, 83, 84, 95, 96;
      of Lily Lake, 102-105; migrating to the Moraine Colony, 167, 168.

    Bedding, 122, 123.

    Bierstadt Moraine, 140.

    Bobcat, 35.

    Burrows, 110, 111; a substitute for houses, 127, 128.

    Canada, emblem of, 43.

    Canals, 77, 78, 88, 141, 145-149, 187; at Lily Lake, 103, 104;
      importance, 105; use of excavated material, 105, 106; forms of,
      106, 107; system at Three Forks, Mont., 107-111; dug in winter,
      206

    Castoreum, 43, 44.

    Chasm Lake, 142.

    Civilization, the beaver's influence on, 47-49.

    Color, 8.

    Colorado River, 25, 50.

    Coöperation, 171.

    Coyotes, 23, 102, 161-163, 166.

    Cry, 27.

    Cutting trees, methods of, 10-12, 31, 32; intelligence shown in, 57,
      91; operations observed, 86, 90-96; accidents in, 144.

    Dams, materials, 65-67; construction, 66, 67; uses, 69; growth, 69,
      70; new and old, 70, 71; discharge from, 71, 72; not all beaver
      build, 72; thoroughfares, 73; effect on topography, 73, 74; shape,
      75-77; an interesting dam, 76-78; waterproofing, 78; dimensions of
      a long dam,     78, 79; dimensions of other dams, 86; across
      canals, 108-110; the dead-wood dam, 143-150; across a drainage
      ditch, 180, 181; across an irrigation ditch, 189, 190; a
      homesteader's dam completed by beaver, 192, 193; effect on
      stream-flow, 213-217.

    Day, working by, 33, 94, 156.

    Death, 14.

    Ditch, struggle over a, 179-182.

    Ditches. _See_ Canals.

    Diver, the young beaver, 22-25.

    Domestication, 25.

    Dunraven, Lord, 179.

    Ears, 7.

    Enemies, 14; times of danger from, 198.

    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 Cañon, 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.