Enos Mills

I think a lot of people saw early on that it was not going to work.

And one of the things that's interesting, if you're a history buff, Enos Mills, who is a self-taught naturalist, he's considered the father of Rocky Mountain National Park.

He He came out, I think he lived in Illinois or Ohio, came out west for his health, like a lot of people did in the late 19th century, and wrote books about his observation of animals.

And he was a contemporary of John Muir, who's a famous naturalist you may have heard of.

And interestingly, my grandmother and great-grandparents worked for Enos Mills up at his Long's Peak Inn in the early 1900s.

But he had some observations about wolves that were great.

And it's, you know, if you want to, I'm going to give you a plug for the Colorado Wolf Tracker Facebook page.

There were Beautiful Joe, Emmet Van Winkle's wolf, Patrash, the dog of Flanders, Big Rab, and even Mother Hubbard's poor dog.

There were Sir Walter Scott's favorite camp, J.G. Holland's Blanco, Enos A. Mills' Scotch, Robert Hitchens' Whisper, and John Muir's brave little Sticken.

At one side stood Jack London's terrible White Fang as a sort of sergeant-at-arms.

Grouped in a semicircle stood the heroes of the Hospice of St. Bernard, and on the high judge's seat was the St. Bernard Berry, who had saved forty lives of men.