Pine, Western yellow, a thousand-year-old, 31-50;
habits of the, 200-204;
character of the, 240.
_Pinus flexilis_, 188, 208.
Plants, of the summit-slopes, 235, 236.
Potentilla, 208.
Poudre Lakes, 86.
Poudre Valley, flood in, 83, 95.
Ptarmigan, 9, 107, 153, 158.
Quail, a pet, 161-167.
Rabbit, snowshoe, 9.
Rex, a St. Bernard dog, 160, 164-167.
Rock, easily eroded, 246.
Rock-formations, grotesque and beautiful, 245, 246.
Rocky Mountains, individuality of, 213;
character of, 233, 234.
Schoolhouse, a mountain, 13.
Sheep, mountain, 9;
a flock of, 78.
Silence, 254.
Snow, tracks in, 9.
Snow-cornice, breaking through a, 17.
Snow-fall, 7.
Snow-slides, 19, 20;
an adventure with a snow-slide, 24, 25.
Snowstorm, a, 8.
Solitaire, 153-155.
Specimen Mountain, electrical phenomena on, 88-92.
Spruce, Colorado blue or silver, 207, 208.
Spruce, Douglas, or Douglas fir, 188, 189, 203, 204;
a large stump, 249.
Spruce, Engelmann, 188, 189, 208, 241, 249;
the story of a forest of, 250-252.
Squirrel, Douglas, 242;
as a nurseryman, 34, 35;
and the old pine, 35, 47;
character of, 79;
cutting off and storing cones, 102-104.
Thrush, Audubon's hermit, 152, 154.
Timber-line, 104-107, 208, 209.
Trap Creek, 94, 95.
Trees, of the Rocky Mountains, 199-211, 236. _See also individual
species_.
Turret-Top, 245.
Uncompahgre National Forest, 244.
Uncompahgre Peak, 244.
Uncompahgre region, wonders of the, 244-256.
Wind, 253.
Wolves, an adventure with, 71-75.
Woodpecker, Texas, 39, 40.
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