The impression made, Katie and Katharine departed Chicago and continued their journey west, across the plains and into Colorado. As their summer school drew to a close, they had the chance to ascend Pike’s Peak on a cog tram, to visit Garden of the Gods, and to breathe in the landscape that was unlike anything they had seen on voyages anywhere else, with craggy sandstone rocks rising like giants out of the forest. It was a landscape that Clara Brown had helped pioneer just a few decades before.
