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Nature, Gardens & Animals
A Mountain Boyhood
Joe Mills and Enos Benjamin Comstock
217 pages~4 hr 19 min read49 chapters$4.99
A boy grows up in the high country, learning the mountains by climbing them. Joe Mills recounts a Rocky Mountain youth of bears, blizzards, and hard-won skill, including the day a bear came suddenly to life at his feet. Vivid, exhilarating outdoor memoir. Come of age where the trails run steep and the air runs thin.
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49 chapters
- 1A MOUNTAIN BOYHOOD
- 2Author of "The Comeback"
- 3Illustrated by ENOS B. COMSTOCK
- 4J. H. SEARS COMPANY, Inc. PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
- 5TO THE ONE WHO MADE THIS BOYHOOD POSSIBLE MY WIFE
- 6CONTENTS
- 7LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 8At 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
- 9A MOUNTAIN BOYHOOD
- 10CHAPTER ONE
- 11GOING WEST
- 12CHAPTER TWO
- 13GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH WILD COUNTRY AND ANIMALS
- 14CHAPTER THREE
- 15FIRST CAMP ALONE—EXPLORING
- 16CHAPTER FOUR
- 17DANCING ACROSS THE DIVIDE
- 18I plunged downward, struggling frantically.
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