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Marjorie Turner Hollman is a writer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

On a cross country trip in 2021, one of my family’s stops was the Royal Gorge near Canõn City, Colorado. What I did not realize until we started sharing photos of our trip with family was that my great-great grandmother, E.J. Phillips, had traveled through this very same area in 1886.