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Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and America the Beautiful
Purple Mountain Majesties The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and America the Beautiful
Author: Barbara Younger, Stacey Schuett (Illustrator)
In the summer of 1893, a young professor named Katharine Lee Bates took a train west from Masachusetts to Colorado. On her trip, she saw the beauty and the grandeur of our nation--its mountains, fertile prairies, and shining seas--and was moved to compose a poem that would later be set to music and stir generations to come. — Glowing paintings an...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780439076654
ISBN-10: 043907665X
Publication Date: 1999
Pages: 30
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Publisher: Scholastic
Book Type: Unknown Binding
Other Versions: Hardcover
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