33-year-old Katharine Lee Bates wrote the famous song “America the Beautiful.”
Bates was standing at the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado when she was inspired to write the song. The song started as a poem that she named “Pikes Peak.”
33-year-old Katharine Lee Bates wrote the famous song “America the Beautiful.”
Bates was standing at the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado when she was inspired to write the song. The song started as a poem that she named “Pikes Peak.”