Katharine Lee Bates and the Story of America the Beautiful," chronicles Bates's life as an author, poet and professor; her ...

and poet Katharine Lee Bates, who was inspired by a trip to Colorado to dash off a poem she had no idea would eventually ...

Katharine Lee Bates was a passenger on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway in the late 1800s, a trip that inspired her to pen the song's famous lyrics. Today, visitors, too, can ride the world’s highest ...