This volume is the consequence of dissecting all previous editions and selecting the essence of the very early times spent in Estes Park. Enos A. Mills' first book, "The Story of Early Estes Park and a Guide Book" is, as always, a glorious experience to explore the Estes Park of the past. Enos did not include the "Guide" section in his second edition "The Story of Estes Park". Nor did the subsequent editions "The Story of Estes Park and Grand Lake", "The Rocky Mountain National Park Memorial Edition", "Early Estes Park", and "The Story of Early Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park and Grand Lake". We have tried to remain faithful to the original "paleface" names of areas, rock formations and canyons of this time period, simply because we cannot keep up with the recent explosion of confusing name changes. We have added a few new goodies we hope you will enjoy. We thank the Stanley Museum of Estes Park, Colorado and Kingfield, Maine, for graciously allowing us to include a portion of Flora's personal perspective of Estes Park. This volume is the consequence of dissecting all previous editions and selecting the essence of the very early times spent in Estes Park. Enos A. Mills' first book, "The Story of Early Estes Park and a Guide Book" is, as alays, a glorious experience to explore the Estes Park of the past. Enos did not include the "Guide" section in his second edition "The Story of Estes Park". Nor did the subsequent editions "The Story of Estes Park and Grand Lake", "The Rocky Mountain National Park Memorial Edition", "Early Estes Park", and "The Story of Early Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park and Grand Lake". We have tried to remain faithful to the original "paleface" names of areas, rock formations and canyons of this time period, simply because we cannot keep up with the recent explosion of confusing name changes. We have added a few new goodies we hope you will enjoy. We thank the Stanley Museum of Estes Park, Colorado and Kingfield, Maine, for graciously allowing us to include a portion of Flora's personal perspective of Estes Park. Enos A. Mills is widely regarded as the "Father of Rocky Mountain National Park". An author, photographer, naturalist, speaker, and innkeeper, he worked tirelessly for the preservation of unique wild areas in the United States, particularly Colorado. The Story of Early Estes Park The first glimpse of the park never fails to arouse the dullest traveller; and those who frequently behold it from the entrance find the scene as welcome as an old song... ...It is an artistic realm. From the entrance one looks down on an irregular depression surrounded by high, forest-walled mountains--this depression an undulating green meadow with great pines sprinkled over it. Some spaces are without a tree and other covered with a grove. A few rocky points and cliffs picturesquely arise in the midst; lines of aspen and willow trim the brooks; and the Big Thompson River, sweeping in great folds from side to side, goes majextically across it... ...The park has the beautiful and the sublime. In it bees hum and beavers build; the wood thrush, unseen, gives a silvery melody to the forest depth, and butterflies with painted wings circle the sunny air. Mountain Sheep with classic pose watch from the cliffs, eagles soar the blue, speckled beauties sprinkle the clear streams and the vaired voice of the coyote echoes when the afterglow falls. Beautiful wild flowers flourish and are mostly of bright color. Each season nearly a thousand varieties perfume the air and open their "bannered bosoms to the sun." They crown the streams, wave on the hills, shine in woodland vistas and color the snow edge. Daisies, orchids, tiger lilies, blue fringed gentians, wild red roses, mariposas, adorn every space and nook.