The song, “America the Beautiful,” was written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1895. She initially wrote the patriotic hymn as a poem after seeing the town of Manitou Springs, Colorado, and looking up at 14,114-foot Pikes Peak. [caption id="attachment_16092" align="alignleft" width="300"] Map: © Daphne Gillam[/caption] Since then,...

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