Whats the most famous poem to come out of the Pikes Peak area?
A. Katherine Lee Bates visited Colorado Springs in 1893 to teach a summer school class at Colorado College. After a trip to the top of Pikes Peak, she wrote a poem entitled America the Beautiful. Two years later, it was published, and soon people were singing it to the tune of a hymn composed in 1882 by Samuel A. Ward.
