Background
Mills, Enos A. was born on April 22, 1870 in near Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Son of Enos and Ann (Lamb) Mills.
Mills, Enos A. was born on April 22, 1870 in near Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Son of Enos and Ann (Lamb) Mills.
Self-educated.
Went to Rocky Mountains early in life. Established home in cabin on Long’s Peak, Colorado, 1886. Has extensively explored the Rocky Mountains, alone on foot and without firearms.
Guide on Long’s Peak, which he has climbed over 250 times.
Colorado “snow observer” for Government, 1907, 1908. Through articles and addresses has urged bird, wild flower and scenery protection and development of national parks.
Author: The Story of Estes Park, 1905. Wild Life in the Rockies, 1909.
The Spell of the Rockies, 1911.
In Beaver World, 1913. The Story of a Thousand Year Pine, 1914. Rocky Mountain Wonderland, 1915.
The Story of Scotch, 1916.
Your National Parks, 1917. The Grizzly, Our Greatest Wild Animal, 1918.
The Adventures of a Nature Guide, 1919. Waiting in the Wilderness, 1921.
Watched by Wild Animals, 1922.
“Father of the Rocky Mountain National Park” (1915).
Married Esther A. Burnell, August 1918.