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

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

She Made History

Nancy Churnin with Olga Baumert (Illustrator)

32 pages first pub 2020 (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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