Accidents, 144.
Age, 14, 193.
Air, blanket over pond, 202, 203.
American Fur Company, 49.
Arkansas River, 218.
Astor, John Jacob, 49.
Attitudes, 6.
Audubon, John James, 53.
Autumn activities, beginning of, 200.
Bad Lands, 65.
Basins, food, 108. _See also_ Wells.
Beaver, a tame, 22-25.
Beaver, aged, of the Spruce Tree Colony, 83, 84, 95, 96;
of Lily Lake, 102-105; migrating to the Moraine Colony, 167, 168.
Bedding, 122, 123.
Bierstadt Moraine, 140.
Bobcat, 35.
Burrows, 110, 111; a substitute for houses, 127, 128.
Canada, emblem of, 43.
Canals, 77, 78, 88, 141, 145-149, 187; at Lily Lake, 103, 104;
importance, 105; use of excavated material, 105, 106; forms of,
106, 107; system at Three Forks, Mont., 107-111; dug in winter,
206
Castoreum, 43, 44.
Chasm Lake, 142.
Civilization, the beaver's influence on, 47-49.
Color, 8.
Colorado River, 25, 50.
Coöperation, 171.
Coyotes, 23, 102, 161-163, 166.
Cry, 27.
Cutting trees, methods of, 10-12, 31, 32; intelligence shown in, 57,
91; operations observed, 86, 90-96; accidents in, 144.
Dams, materials, 65-67; construction, 66, 67; uses, 69; growth, 69,
70; new and old, 70, 71; discharge from, 71, 72; not all beaver
build, 72; thoroughfares, 73; effect on topography, 73, 74; shape,
75-77; an interesting dam, 76-78; waterproofing, 78; dimensions of
a long dam, 78, 79; dimensions of other dams, 86; across
canals, 108-110; the dead-wood dam, 143-150; across a drainage
ditch, 180, 181; across an irrigation ditch, 189, 190; a
homesteader's dam completed by beaver, 192, 193; effect on
stream-flow, 213-217.
Day, working by, 33, 94, 156.
Death, 14.
Ditch, struggle over a, 179-182.
Ditches. _See_ Canals.
Diver, the young beaver, 22-25.
Domestication, 25.
Dunraven, Lord, 179.
Ears, 7.
Enemies, 14; times of danger from, 198.
Engineering, 139-150.
Erosion, checked by beaver, 214, 217, 218.
Errors, 67, 68.
Estes Park, 179.
Europe, the beaver in, 40, 41.
Exploration, 168, 169.
Eyesight, 8.
Fabulous accounts, 53.
Feet, uses of, 5, 6; form of, 8.
Feigning injury, 25, 26.
Felling trees. _See_ Cutting trees.
Fence posts, 30.
Fighting, 19, 20, 34, 35.
Fire, 158-163.
Fish, water-holes for, 214.
Flat-top, a beaver pioneer, 175, 176, 183-193.
Floods, 206, 207; damage prevented by beaver, 214, 216.
Food, 10, 84, 205.
Food-piles, 12, 13, 88, 89, 97, 150, 169.
Fossil beaver, 40.
Fox, 199.
Fruit trees, 30.
Geographical distribution, 40-42, 49, 50.
Gold, 218.
Grand Cañon, 25, 50.
Hands, uses of, 5; form of, 8.
Harvest, a year's, 97; a large, 169.
Harvest-gathering, 83-98, 148-150, 157, 158.
Hearing, 8.
Hearne, Samuel, quoted, 53.
History, the beaver in, 41-44.
Homesteader, a friendly, 190-193.
Houses, building, 3; occupants, 21; dimensions, 86, 119, 120, 130,
131; mud plastering, 97, 123-125; construction, 119-123, 130,
131; entrances, 119, 120; situation, 120, 125-127; burrows a
substitute for, 127, 128; a typical house, 130, 131; ventilation,
132; enlargement, 169-171; security, 197, 198; shaped to meet
floods, 207.
Hudson's Bay Company, the, 48.
Ice, a trouble of beaver existence, 126, 127; a catastrophe caused
by, 184-186; on the pond, 200, 202-206; casualties caused by, 207.
Indians, their legends about the beaver, 39.
Individuality, 35, 67.
Industry, 36.
Intelligence, 46, 57-60.
Irrigation-ditches, 31.
Island Colony, harvesting methods of, 92, 93.
Jefferson River, 11, 78, 107, 108.
Kingsford, William, his History of Canada, 48.
Land, beaver seen on, 191, 192.
Leadership, 20.
Legends, 39.
Lewis and Clark, 42.
Life, the beaver's, 14-16.
Lily Lake, beaver at, 101-105; beaver house at, 119; the pioneer
beaver of, 175-193; description of, 178.
Lily Mountain, 182.
Lion, mountain, 160-162, 166.
Local attachment, 141, 142.
Long, Stephen Harriman, his Journal, 33.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, his _Hiawatha_ quoted, 60, 61.
Long's Peak, 140, 153.
Love ditty, 27.
Majors, Alexander, his _Seventy Years on the Frontier_, 59, 60.
Martin, Horace T., 49.
Mating, 27.
Medicine Bow Mountains, 197.
Migration, 20, 21, 132, 133, 141, 161-163, 167-169, 175-177, 182,
183.
Mischief, 30, 31.
Moraine Colony, engineering of, 139, 142-150; discovery and
observation of, 153-158; homes destroyed by fire, 158, 159;
migrating, 161-163; new site, 163, 164; old site resettled, 165;
later fortunes, 166-171.
Morgan, Lewis H., his _American Beaver and his Works_, 54, 55, 58.
Night, working at, 33.
Northwestern Fur Company, 49.
Old, the, 34.
Outcasts, 34.
Ouzel, water, 199.
Parasites, 14.
Physical make-up, 5-9, 68.
Pipestone Creek, 11.
Place-names taken from the beaver, 42, 43.
Play, 29, 156, 157.
Ponds, early abundance, 42; size, 65, 86; uses, 68, 69; chains or
clusters of, 74; depth, 107; canals in bottom, 107; spring-filled,
113, 114; lowering the level under ice, 202, 203; draining, 208,
209; effect on stream-flow, 213-217; leaky reservoirs, 216.
Population, changes in, 46, 47.
Protection, 50, 217, 220, 221.
Reason, evidences of, 57, 58.
Romanes, George J., on the beaver, 58, 59.
Sanitation, 208.
Sawtooth Mountains, 66.
Sediment, a problem of beaver life, 125, 126.
Sheep, mountain, 192.
Size, 7.
Skins, 43, 44, 48, 49.
Sleep, 122.
Slides, 87, 112, 199.
Smell, sense of, 7.
Snake River, 25.
Soil, the beaver's conservation of, 214, 217-220.
Sounds and silence, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 133, 134.
Springs, use of, 204.
Spruce Tree Colony, harvest time with, 83-98; tunnels in, 113-115.
Stream-flow, effect of beaver on, 72-74, 213-217.
Strength, 9.
Subways. _See_ Tunnels.
Swimming, method of, 6.
Tail, uses of, 5, 6, 11; form and covering, 8; signalling with, 24,
31, 96; fabulous accounts of the uses of, 53.
Teeth, 7-9.
Three Forks, Montana, 42, 79; canal system at, 107-111.
Trails, 111, 112.
Transportation of dam and food material, 86-90, 92, 93; canals used
in, 106-115; trails and slides used in, 111, 112, 115; tunnels
used in, 112-115.
Trappers, 164, 189-191.
Traps, 35, 189.
Trees, cutting. _See_ Cutting trees.
Trimming trees, 12, 96.
Trout, 205, 206.
Tunnels, 85, 112-115, 198, 203, 206.
Water. _See_ Stream-flow.
Water-ouzel, 199.
Water-supply, 85, 86.
Weather-wisdom, 44-47.
Weight, 7.
Wells, food, 103, 104. _See also_ Basins.
Whistle, 26, 37.
Wildcat, 35.
Willow Creek, 176.
Wind River, 102, 175, 182, 188.
Winter, beaver life in, 197-209.
Wolves, gray, 191, 197.
Wood, dead, 143, 144.
Work, accomplished by beaver, 3-5.
Young, birth and care of, 27, 28; growth and play of, 28.
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