During this time, he also authored several articles and books on nature and Estes Park area. Following this position, he served as government lecturer on forestry from 1907-1909. His job was to measure the snow depths to predict spring and summer runoff. He eventually homesteaded in the surrounding area and later turned the Longs Peak house into the Longs Peak Inn, from which he treated guests to excursions into the wilderness and evening nature talks.įrom 1902-1906, Mills also served as the Colorado State Snow Observer, a position that took him into the wild he so loved. In 1902, Mills returned to Colorado and purchased from his cousin the Longs Peak House in Estes Park.
In 1889, he had a chance encounter with famed naturalist John Muir on a San Francisco beach, and from that point on Mills dedicated his life to conservation activism, lecturing, and writing. There he lived and worked intermittently until 1902, spending more summers traveling the West Coast of the United States, Alaska, and Europe. In 1887, after returning to health, he moved to Butte, Montana. Over the course of his life, he made the trip 40 times by himself and nearly 300 additional times as a guide. At age 15, he made his first ascent of the 14,255-foot Longs Peak. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.Įnos Abijah Mills was born in Kansas but moved to Colorado early in his life during a bout with digestive illness. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Īs a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
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