Katharine Lee Bates and the story of "America the Beautiful'" a new film by writer and director John de Graaf will premiere ...

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

The spacious skies that moved Katharine Lee Bates to begin writing a poem she would call “America the Beautiful,” while standing atop Pikes Peak in 1893 are the same robin’s-egg blue vistas ...

Pikes Peak’s “purple mountain majesties” may have inspired Katharine Lee Bates to write her poem “America the Beautiful” in 1893. But it’s another set of colors that inspired the ...

Rorabaugh said Katharine Lee Bates’ 1893 song and poem “America the Beautiful” shows the patriotism felt from the summit of Pikes Peak. “It’s one of the most patriotic songs ever written ...

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 ...