For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and the Inspiration for "America the Beautiful" by Nancy Churnin

She Made History

For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and the Inspiration for "America the Beautiful"

Nancy Churnin with Olga Baumert (Illustrator)

32 pages hardcover 2020

2 editions

nonfiction biography historical emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
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Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to "America the Beautiful" after a stirring visit to Pikes Peak in 1893. But the story behind the song begins with Katharine herself, who pushed beyond conventional expectations of women to become an accla...

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