New book by Cheyenne Mountain champion explores the curious slopes

Upon a visit to present-day Colorado Springs in 1863, the writer and explorer Fitz Hugh Ludlow remarked on a view that seemed underappreciated around town. “A mountain which I admire more than Pike’s Peak ... is the grand Cheyenne,” he wrote. “There is a unity of conception in it unsurpassed in any mountain I have seen. It is full of living power. In the declining daylight, its vast simple surface became the broadest mass of blue and purple shadow that ever lay on the easel of Nature.” P.J. Anderson came...