Writing Colorado, a year-long series, features twelve writers whose books reveal the essential character of this state we call home. Colorado’s landscapes and lifescapes inspired many writers in the last two and a half centuries. Some just passed through; some came and stayed; some did not become writers until they lived here awhile. Their words, living long after they disappear, yet speak of yesterday’s Colorado that we might more clearly understand the Colorado of today. May - Enos Mills: Wild Life on the Rockies 1909 The Man Who Knew the Mountains He lived his life so energetically and so outdoors that one could almost interpret Enos Mills as impudent towards the reality of nature’s power. His spelling choice in his book, Wild Life on the Rockies, causes the reader to wonder whether his choice of “wild life” referred to his own lifestyle afield or the creatures that lured him out there.