It was originally written by Katharine Lee Bates as a poem called "Pikes Peak" and later put to a hymn by Samual A. Ward. The combination of Ward's melody and Bates's poem was first entitled ...

Before becoming a song, it was a poem, written by Katharine Lee Bates. She published the poem on July 4th of that year in The Congregationalist. Eventually the poem was turned into the historic ...