"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000 acre wildfire, threatening her century old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the...

Contains: Rocky Mountain; Mesa Verde; Great Sand Dunes; Black Canyon of the Gunnison; Colorado national monument; Curecanti; Dinosaur national monument; Florissant Fossil Beds; and Yucca House.

Ghost towns, gold mines, ancient cultures, mountain paradises, and fur traders. Visit: Denver, where the 16th Street Mall is the city's pride; the Garden of the Gods, in Colorado Springs; the Anasazi caves at Pike's Peak; and Sprague Lake.

Collection of stories written by Samuel Bowles, Emily Faithfull, Horace Greeley, Zane Grey, Helen Hunt Jackson, Rudyard Kipling, Enos Mills, Francis Parkman, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman.

The author spent a leisurely summer in Colorado sketching, sightseeing, and camping in the area around Pike's Peak. She met the poet and essayist Sara Jane Lippincott (who wrote under the pseudonym "Grace Greenwood") at Manitou, a popular resort.