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Enos Abijah Mills was born on April 22, 1870, near Kansas City, Kansas. He was one of the seven children of Enos and Ann (Lamb) Mills. His parents were pioneers who emigrated from South Bend, Ind. , to Iowa in the eighteen-fifties, by ox-team, and thence to Kansas.
Frail, with a serious digestive disorder, Enos at the age of fourteen went to Colorado for his health. The first winter he spent on a ranch, and the following summer, at a hotel in Estes Park, washing dishes, chopping wood and carrying the mail. Fascinated by Long's Peak, he selected at its foot a quarter-section of land for homesteading and built a cabin which long served as his home. A lover of nature and solitude, he was thrilled by the beauty of his surroundings and liked to roam over the valleys and mountains and observe their wildlife. For several winters Enos added to his meager income by working on ranches. In the winter of 1887-88, he found more lucrative employment in the mines at Butte, Montana, where, over a period of years, he was successively tool boy, miner, machine-driller, compressor-man, and engineer. At his cabin, where he spent his summers, he mastered arithmetic, grammar, and history. At Butte, for the first time, he had access to a library and "sat up half the night reading and writing. " He familiarized himself with the best of the poets and made scrapbooks of favorite selections. In the meantime, Mills had fitted himself as a guide to Long's Peak by climbing the peak under all conditions on clear days, in cloudy or windy weather, in the moonlight, on darkest nights, and with or without a pack. Unfortunately the beauties of Estes Park were not generally known and the youthful guide had but little employment. He was content to spend weeks alone in his cabin, often reading history and biography. As a part of his education, he added travel to California, Yellowstone Park, Alaska, the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, and Europe. A chance meeting with John Muir proved to be a turning point in his life. Muir urged him to study nature, to systematize what he observed, and to learn to write and talk about it.
Mills gave direction and purpose to a career previously uncertain. Mills's lecturing began with a talk on forestry at San Francisco in 1891 more or less a failure; his writing, with a column, first contributed in 1896, to a Denver newspaper on Estes Park news a humble start. He developed nature guiding, which included rests with talks on wild life and kindred topics. His days were crowded with tramping, camping, exploring, lecturing, and writing. In 1901, Mills embarked on a business enterprise, hotel keeping of a unique kind, that was to exact much time and thought for the rest of his life. He purchased the Long's Peak property, consisting of a few log buildings for guests and a quarter-section of land adjoining his homestead tract. He named it Long's Peak Inn and made some expensive improvements. After it burned down in 1906, he rebuilt it according to his own ideas of picturesqueness and conducted it as a resort for nature lovers actual or potential. He encouraged tramping, by night as well as by day. He discouraged the picking of wild flowers. One of his rules he worded thus, "At the Inn, there is no music, dancing, or card-playing. " The most interesting feature was the master himself, who gave nature talks in the evening and was accessible to all guests. He guided parties up Long's Peak, which he climbed more than two hundred and fifty times. His articles satisfied and stimulated a growing interest in nature; Harper's Weekly, Atlantic Monthly, and other leading periodicals readily accepted them. In forest conservation, Mills found a movement that appealed to his love of nature and that received his ardent support. In 1905, he made a forestry lecture tour of the East in which he delivered upwards of eighty addresses, all at his own expense. President Theodore Roosevelt sent for him, now a national figure, and appointed him federal lecturer on forestry, an office that he held from 1907 to 1909. The latter year, he began almost single-handed an agitation for a Colorado national park, in which he encountered bitter opposition, particularly from the federal Forest Service. His last absence from home was in connection with a suit against the transportation company. Following an accident in a New York City subway and an attack of influenza, Mills died suddenly at his cabin. His body was cremated and the ashes were scattered over the landscape that he loved.
Mills is known as the main figure behind the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. His writings give him a secure place in the Colorado hall of fame. His crusade lasted for six years and culminated in the creation of the Rocky Mountain National Park. It was ironic that rights which Mills had formerly enjoyed were denied him by reason of a concession of the Department of the Interior to a transportation company. He engaged in a second crusade, this time against what he described as a monopoly illegally granted and operated, a system that interfered with personal liberty and public rights.
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Many of his books show an artistic tendency and a gift for story-telling. They are copiously illustrated, often by photographs taken by him on his explorations.
Quotations:
"Within National Parks is room glorious room room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve. "
"The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind. "
"The essence of nature guiding is to travel gracefully rather than arrive. "
"The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world. "
"It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this time’; or, ‘We should wait until present ones are improved. ’"
"The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world. "
A favorite sport of Mills was mountain tramping in winter time on snowshoes. He carried no weapons, but always a camera. In 1903, he made two winter records, the climbing of Long's Peak and the crossing of the Continental Divide on the Flattop Trail. For several winters the state of Colorado employed him as "snow observer" to ascertain the depth of snow on the slopes of the upper Rockies. In his lonely explorations he had many thrilling experiences and a few narrow escapes from snow-slides and avalanches, all of which he summed up as "an abundance of life and fun. " Some of his best adventure stories are accounts of his winter mountaineering "Alone with a Landslide, " "In the Winter Snows, " "In a Mountain Blizzard, " and "Coasting off the Roof of the World. "
On August 12, 1918, Mills was married to Esther Adaline Burnell, of Estes Park. They had one child, Enda.
26 December 1834 - 17 February 1910
6 November 1837 - 4 March 1923
22 April 1870 - 21 September 1922
23 July 1880 - 3 October 1935
27 July 1857 - 2 November 1859
22 May 1855 - 22 October 1859
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2 March 1862 - 2 March 1862
