Sings in Color

With a Union Pacific mileage book in hand, Frank Tenney Johnson realized his dream to travel the West by rail. When Johnson saw Pike’s Peak in the Colorado Rockies, he wrote, “The cloud chariots after having circled about the hoary head of Pike’s Peak all the afternoon have silently taken their departure to meet the coming of night.” And it was nighttime that Johnson cherished most. His study of daytime colors under the effects of moonlight was realized in his hallmark nocturnes, wher