"Here is a group of stories about animals--about sheep, mule deer, ravens, foxes, wildcats, rabbits, coyotes, hawks, and eagles; about packrats, white-footed mice, skunks, porcupines, marmots, and beavers; about lizards, owls, butterflies, and a host of others. All who love wild animals and the out-of-doors, be they children or grown-ups, will treasure these stories. For here is no mere description, no mere cataloguing of traits of various species. Here we go with our author to that beautiful high country of the Colorado Rockies, to Pinon Mesa, and meet and know these animals as the author met and knew them--as live, individual personalities playing their parts in little dramas which to them were often immediate matters of life and death." --Front cover flap.