Research Catalog

Title

Enos Mills : citizen of nature / by Alexander Drummond.

Author

Drummond, Alexander, 1938-

Publication

Nivot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c1995.

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Details

Description

xiii, 433 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Enos Mills (1870-1922) was the quintessential voice of the Rocky Mountains in the early decades of the twentieth century and achieved national fame as a naturalist and nature writer, conservation pioneer, lecturer, and mountain adventurer. He was often ranked with the two great naturalists he most admired: John Muir and John Burroughs. Mills campaigned widely in defense of unspoiled nature and its creatures, stressing their inseparability from a whole and healthy human civilization. Most famous as an apostle of national parks and a key player in the young park movement, he nevertheless deeply distrusted institutions and clashed violently with both the Forest Service and Park Service bureaucracies."--BOOK JACKET. "Enos Mills: Citizen of Nature is the first full-length examination of Mills and his work, an incisive account of a complex, controversial, and often difficult man who touched millions of lives in his time and whose legacy has vivid relevance today. Four final chapters examine Mills's modern significance as a romantic adventurer seeking to give life "poetic intensity" and as a naturalist, writer, founder of outdoor education, and conservation activist. This long-needed biography brings Mills into clear focus as a participant in the development of several fields of endeavor and in the drama of the developing West. In all he did, Mills worked passionately for what we call today "reconnection" with our natural heritage. As in the reintegrated world he longed for, all living things shared in the bounty and harmony of cooperative citizenship."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Naturalists > United States > Biography
• Mills, Enos A., 1870-1922

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-424) and index.

Contents

Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue: Enos Mills in His Time and Ours (starting p. 1) -- 1 Farm Boy on the Kansas Frontier (starting p. 15) -- 2 Adolescent among the Mountains (starting p. 28) -- 3 Self-Discovery Begins (starting p. 37) -- 4 From Mines to Muir (starting p. 49) -- 5 The Adventure Seeker (starting p. 63) -- 6 The Budding Naturalist (starting p. 79) -- 7 A Woodsman Ponders Politics (starting p. 92) -- 8 Enos Mills, Longs Peak Guide (starting p. 104) -- 9 Nature Instructs: Self-Improvement Through Play (starting p. 113) -- 10 Longs Peak Inn: "Higher than any Hotel in the Alps" (starting p. 123) -- 11 The Snowman: Mills and Western Water (starting p. 145) -- 12 Mountain Folks of the Rockies: Mills Discovers Hidden Heroes (starting p. 159) -- 13 Colorado Forests: "A Picturesque Remnant and Melancholy Ruin" (starting p. 169) -- 14 Champion of Trees: Mills Lectures the Nation (starting p. 182) -- 15 Mills at Forty: Books, Politics, Domestic Strife (starting p. 203) -- 16 The Battle to Create a National Park (starting p. 222) -- 17 From Park Publicist to Park Critic (starting p. 248) -- 18 Mills vs. Monopoly: "The Acme of Human Tyranny" (starting p. 267) -- 19 The Final Years and Early Death (starting p. 291) -- 20 Romantic Hero in a Real World (starting p. 317) -- 21 Enos Mills the Naturalist: A Vanishing Breed (starting p. 333) -- 22 Nature's Interpreter: Mills as Writer and Outdoor Educator (starting p. 351) -- 23 Enos Mills in the Stream of Twentieth-Century Conservation (starting p. 371) -- Notes (starting p. 397) -- Index (starting p. 425)

ISBN

0870814079 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95038668^

OCLC

• 33041788
• SCSB-10945598

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library