Fifty for 150: Katharine Lee Bates writes ‘America the Beautiful’ following 1893 visit to Pikes Peak

By: Sara Wilson

Outlets: Colorado Newsline

Published: July 27, 2026

Words: 364

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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Poet Katharine Lee Bates spent the summer of 1893 teaching English at the Colorado Summer School at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, on a leave of absence from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. By that time, she was already a published poet and author of works including the novel “Rose and Thorn” and contributions in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly and the Boston Evening Transcript.

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