The Project Gutenberg E-text of A Mountain Boyhood
by Joe Mills
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About this eBook
- Author
- Mills, Joe, 1880-1935
- Title
- A Mountain Boyhood
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F721: United States local history: Rocky Mountains. Yellowstone National Park
- Subject
- Longs Peak (Colo.)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 29681
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29681
- Release Date
- August 12, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.AT THAT INSTANT THE BEAR CAME TO LIFE. — A MOUNTAIN BOYHOOD — by JOE MILLS — Author of "The Comeback" — Illustrated by ENOS B. COMSTOCK — J. H. SEARS & COMPANY, Inc. PUBLISHERS NEW YORK — TO THE ONE WHO MADE THIS BOYHOOD POSSIBLE MY WIFE
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — At that instant the bear came to life . . . . Frontispiece — I plunged downward, struggling frantically — I sat down by the fiddler and dozed — I glimpsed his flaming eyes and wide-open, fang-filled mouth — Sheep and rock dropped straight toward me — Never before had the ring of an ax echoed in Silent Valley — "See all fools ain't dead yit," he observed — The memory of that race for life is still vividly terrifying — Every fall I watched Mr. and Mrs. Peg at their repairs — They turned tail and came racing back, straight toward me — Out of the dust of years, we dug the history of a buried past — A MOUNTAIN BOYHOOD — CHAPTER ONE — GOING WEST — CHAPTER TWO — GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH WILD COUNTRY AND ANIMALS — CHAPTER THREE — FIRST CAMP ALONE—EXPLORING — CHAPTER FOUR — DANCING ACROSS THE DIVIDE — I plunged downward, struggling frantically. — I sat down by the fiddler and dozed. — CHAPTER FIVE — TRAPPING—MOUNTAIN-TOP DWELLERS — I glimpsed his flaming eyes and wide-open, fang-filled mouth. — Sheep and rock dropped straight toward me. — CHAPTER SIX — A LOG CABIN IN THE WILDS—PRIMITIVE LIVING — Never before had the ring of an ax echoed in Silent Valley! — "See all fools ain't dead yit," he observed. — CHAPTER SEVEN — GLACIERS AND FOREST FIRES — The memory of that race for life is still vividly terrifying. — CHAPTER EIGHT — THE PROVERBIAL BUSY BEAVER — Every fall I watched Mr. and Mrs. Peg at their repairs. — CHAPTER NINE — MOUNTAIN CLIMBING — CHAPTER TEN — MODERN PATHFINDERS — CHAPTER ELEVEN — OFF THE TRAIL — They turned tail and came racing back, straight toward me. — CHAPTER TWELVE — DREAMERS OF GOLDEN DREAMS — CHAPTER THIRTEEN — THE CITY OF SILENCE — Out of the dust of years, we dug the history of a buried past. — CHAPTER FOURTEEN — BEARS AND BUGBEARS — CHAPTER FIFTEEN — ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
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