A Mountain Boyhood
by Joe Mills
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Chapters (49)
- A MOUNTAIN BOYHOOD
- 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
- CONTENTS
- 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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