Chapter 4 (“The Purple Hills thatBeckoned”) follows children as they traveled away from the homeplace and matured through adolescence into young adults, charting their expanding sense of geography. Young people traveled with parents and on their own for pleasure, work, and education. They learned geographic concepts and regional labels at school and grasslands characteristics by comparison to new landscapes encountered within the region and beyond. Memory assists young adults in crafting regional parameters. New intellectual tools learned at teacher-training Normal Schools, colleges, art institutes, and universities allowed this generation to recraft their wondrous childhood constructions of grasslands homes. Intellectual concepts joined the untutored sensual immersion of childhood experiences to allow for the creation of regional concepts and identities.