Joe Mills <br/><br/>
A Mountain Boyhood 

 -  U of Nebraska Press 
 - 311 pages 
<br/><br/> Estes Park was hardly more than a post office in 1899, when young Joe Mills first saw Colorado's Front Range. A would-be Robinson Crusoe, Joe scaled peaks, watched wild animals, hunted and trapped, and generally roughed it in the region that would become Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915. A Mountain Boyhood, the true story of his adventures there, is as rich in human as in natural history. Joe meets a colorful bunch of early settlers, living for a while with a circuit-riding parson who operates a ranch. He learns campcraft and nature lore, crosses Flattop Mountain on snowshoes in midwinter to socialize, and builds a log cabin near Longs Peak (the fireplace still stands). Joe Mills arrived far enough ahead of the sportsmen and tourists to serve them later as a seasoned guide, and, along with his brother, Enos Mills, the naturalist and writer, he was instrumental in establishing the area as a playground for the nation. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780803281547 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>17108133 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>87030202 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History - U.S.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F781.M46 A3 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>978.8