New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
Enlos A. Mills.
Naturalist and
W ritter, Dies
Colorado Explorer and
Fearless Mountain Climb
er Was Injured in sub
way Accident Last Year
Once lizard Rock Man
One of The First TO Cam
paign for Creatio N
OF Government Parks

ESTES PARK, Col, sept. 21.--To do
IN so1ety vast amount Of the most
Venturesome mountain climbing ever
known in the Rockies and to suffer
fatal injury in New York subway was
the lot of Enos A. Mills, explorer and
naturalist, who died to-day at his
home, Longs feak Inn, near this park,
to whose thousands of yearly visitors
ne was we'll known. His death was
SAID to be the result Of injuries he
suffered in subway accident in New
York last January,
lie was son Of Enos and Ann
(Lamb) Mills, Kansas pioneers, and
was born near Kansas City, in that
state, on April 20, 1870 Almost en-
tirely self educated, he removed while
yet IN his teens to self-b built cabin
on the slope Of Longs Peak, Colorado.
and devoted his chief attention to ex-
ploration and the study of wild life.
His most daring mountain climbing
was done alone, and he disdaned the
carrying OF firearms for protection.
he served as guide to thousands of
visitors, and in that capacity climbed
to the summit of Longs Peak more
than 200 times. In 1907 and 1908 he
was snow observer" for the govern
ment
wrote Nature Book
Developing fine gift for writing
he devoted himself to advocacy Of the
protection of the native fauna ard
nora through the development of the
national park system. He was the
founder OF Estes Park and was the au-
1,112l, thor Of The Story of Estes Park"
wild Life in the Rockies" "The Spell
Of the Rockies" ON Beaver World. :"
"The, Story of Thousand Year Pine"
Rocky Mountain Wonderland" "The
Parks" "The Grizzly, Our m Greatest Greatest
Wild Animal" "The Adventures Of n
Nature Guide" "Waiting in the viii
derness,' "Watched by Wild Animals"
and various lesser works on similar
themes He was married in 1918 to
Miss Esther A. Burnell, Of Estes Park.
During his first years in the Rocky
Mountain region Mr.. Mills worked in
winter as hard rock man" in the
mines at Cripple Greek and Butte
the national parks. A chance meeting
with John Muir, in 1889, determined
his career as a naturalist. Muir, as
founded at the knowledge of the out
doors displayed by the youth, advised
hlm to become a nature writer. Mr..
Mills's early attempts at writing were
failures. 1t was not until 1898 that
his writing began to attract attention.
In the meantime he had been accumu-
lating store of information, the re-
suit of trips through the West and to
Alaska and foreign countries. His
hobbies were the beaver and the
he showed indisputable proof that the
beaver, long thought to have been ex-
tinct, was still living along the Seine.
Sponsored Park Idea
He was one of the first to campaign
for the setting aside of the Mesa
Verde cliff dweller region as a national
park, and was instrumental in the
creation of Glacier National Park. He
worked seven years, sometimes alone
and depending on his own financial
resources, until he prevailed upon
National Park. The creation of a ma
tional park service was his idea.
Mr.. Mills was appointed lecturer in
the Forest Service by President Roose-
welt. Also he lectured throughout the
country in behalf of the national
parks. He opposed granting special
transportation privileges in Che parks
and was campaigning on that subject
last winter when his health broke
down.
Mr.. Mills is survived by his wife and
daughter, Edna.
Mr.. Mills was in the city last win
ter in connection with his campaign
against the transportation monopolv in
the national parks. He was in poor
health at tho TINA hut Co, i.