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  Katharine Lee Bates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Katharine Lee Bates, (August 12, 1859 - March 26, 1929), is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful.
The first draft of America the Beautiful was hastily jotted in a notebook during the summer of 1893, which Miss Bates spent teaching English at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Katharine Lee Bates died in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1929.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katherine_Lee_Bates   (346 words)

  
 Isle of Lesbos: Poetry of Katharine Lee Bates
Isle of Lesbos: Poetry of Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates was an ardent feminist and the author of the song "America the Beautiful." She attended Wellesley college and later returned to join the faculty.
Statue of Katharine Lee Bates--shows a photograph of the statue in Falmouth, with plaque inscription.
www.sappho.com /poetry/k_bates.html   (517 words)

  
 Person of the Week: Katharine Lee Bates
Bates was a lecturer at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs, CO, in the summer of 1893.
Bates shared many years with her companion, Coman, who was a professor, department chair and dean at Wellesley College.
Bates was an active member of numerous and wide ranging humanitarian, academic, and political organizations, including the American Association for Labor Legislation, the Antivivisection Society, the League of Nations and the American Poetry Society, to name but a few.
www.wellesley.edu /Anniversary/bates.html   (578 words)

  
 Katherine Lee Bates
Born on Aug. 12, 1859, Katherine Lee Bates was the fifth child born to William and Cornelia Frances Lee Bates.
Bates then entered Wellesley College, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 1880 She became president of it's second graduating class and returned to teach for 40 years.
The death of Katharine Lee Bates means the passing away of one of the most notable citizens of Wellesley, one of the most important figures connected with Wellesley College, and much more than that, a considerable author and creative influence in the whole of American life.
www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com /Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/katherine_lee_bates.htm   (1198 words)

  
 TheFreeBookShop.com - Library - Katherine Lee Bates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Born on Aug. 12, 1859, Miss Bates was the fifth child born to William and Cornelia Frances Lee Bates.
Miss Bates was a month old when her father died from a tumor in his spine which may have been the result of an earlier injury.
Miss Bates then entered Wellesley College, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 1880 She became president of it's second graduating class and returned to teach for 40 years.
katherinebates.thefreebookshop.com   (754 words)

  
 Katherine Lee Bates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is a picture of Katherine Lee Bates with her Collie, Sigurd, when she was in Colorado Springs at Colorado College.
Katherine Lee Bates is known for her poem that became the song, "America the Beautiful."
Katherine Bates later wrote in her diary that it was the "most glorious scenery I ever beheld." That was the beginning of the idea to write the famous poem.
www.d11.org /bristol/Bristol_Wall/1880/front_1880_bates.htm   (298 words)

  
 Anti-Imperialist Poems by Katharine Lee Bates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
atharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) was a feminist and longtime professor at Wellesley College.
Bates does not seem to have had any organizational connection with the Anti-Imperialist League, but she wrote numerous poems about the Philippine-American War, the Boer War in South Africa, and dashed hopes for peace at the turn of the century.
Bates attended and Coman spoke at the farewell luncheon for Lopez held in Boston in 1903.
www.boondocksnet.com /ai/lit/bates.html   (320 words)

  
 Lee Cuba's Convocation Address
Like Bates, "I do not propose, Miss President, to reveal all the secrets of our Faculty consciousness," but rather will confine my remarks to a brief and selective history of how the Wellesley faculty have wrestled with one of the central tensions of their work: defining their role as teacher-scholars.
When Katherine Lee Bates came to the college in 1885, faculty were primarily charged with the responsibility of instruction.
As Bates put it, she and her colleagues were engaged in an "incessant struggle to secure the essential time, the essential quiet, the essential liberty of soul for genuine, fruitful study."
www.wellesley.edu /Anniversary/cubaspeech.html   (1201 words)

  
 Arts - Literature - Authors - B - Bates, Katherine Lee - Newsletter - News - Reviews - Education - Ratings
Miss Bates moved to Wellesley when she was still a kid and graduated from the high school there and then Wellesley...
Isle of Lesbos: Poetry of Katharine Lee Bates Bates was an ardent feminist and the author of the song America the Beautiful She attended Wellesley college and later returned to join the faculty.
RPO Selected Poetry of Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
www.banner-net.com /Arts/Literature/Authors/B/Bates,_Katherine_Lee   (316 words)

  
 Katharine Lee Bates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bates was a prolific poet and a professor of English and head of the English department at Wellesley, where she had been a student in its earliest years.
In l893, when she was thirty-four, Katharine Lee Bates was invited to teach summer school in Colorado Springs.
She crossed the country by train from Boston to Colorado Springs, She kept a diary, as she had since she was nine, and wrote down odds and ends of observation and poetry when she could.
academy.d20.co.edu /ate/bates.html   (283 words)

  
 Katharine Lee Bates: BIO
Miss Bates, who was lecturing at the summer session at Colorado College, joined an expedition to the summit of Pikes Peak In a prairie wagon.
A feather from Polonlus is on display at the Katharine Lee Bates house on the Village Green.
Miss Bates was the fifth child born to William and Cornelia Frances Lee Bates.
www.fuzzylu.com /falmouth/bates/klbnotes.html   (990 words)

  
 The 'Other' Anthem: America the Beautiful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
And while it's true that The Star Spangled Banner has been America's official national anthem since 1931, many Americans feel a unique affection for the peaceful, patriotic words the poet Katherine Lee Bates was inspired to write during her great journey through the American out West back in 1893.
Sherr notes that in each of the song's four verses, Katherine Lee Bates includes something significant about America to celebrate, something to pray for, and some challenge to overcome.
Bates praised the beauty of the land and its bounty.
www.voanews.com /article.cfm?objectID=AA2F94CD-E81A-41E4-96D609803D0A1F5F   (704 words)

  
 The Katharine Lee Bates Shrine!
Katharine Lee Bates was born in a house on Falmouth's Main Street on August 12th, 1859.
Miss Bates moved to Wellesley when she was still a kid and graduated from the high school there and then Wellesley College in 1874.
The real experts on the life of Katharine Lee Bates are the good folks at The Falmouth Historical Society, who maintain a museum at her former home on Main Street.
www.fuzzylu.com /falmouth/bates/home.htm   (172 words)

  
 Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: B: Bates, Katherine Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Katharine Lee Bates of Falmouth, Massachusetts  · Biography of the poet who wrote America the Beautiful, and her lifelong association with the First Congregational Church of Falmouth.
The Katharine Lee Bates Shrine  · Tribute site includes a biography of the author and samples of her poetry.
Selected Poetry of Katharine Lee Bates  · Profile of the author including two of her poems.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=236051   (115 words)

  
 UF: Smathers Libraries: Special Collections: Tracy L'Engle Angas Papers
Some of the identified non-family writers are Katherine Lee Bates, Madge A. Bigham, Frankie McKee, actress Lucille Watson, pianist Katherine Heyman, scholar Katherine Balderston, college friend Margaret "Babbie" Babcock Meriwether, and novelist Ida A. Wylie.
Katherine Ruth Heyman, 1944 (2 letters and copy of verse).
TLS "Katherine Lee Bates"; Wellesley, 9 Sept. 1918.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/manuscript/guides/Angas2.htm   (1331 words)

  
 Cat's Meow Village
The well-known lyrics to American the Beautiful were written by Katharine Lee Bates, the lady whose home is designated as the
The Katherine Lee Bates Home is located in Falmouth, MA, where Katharine was born on August 12, 1859.
Miss Bates wrote her famous words in the summer of 1893, while lecturing at Colorado College.
www.catsmeow.com /club/membership_benefits.htm   (102 words)

  
 Travel Destination: Pikes Peak in Colorado
History of Pikes Peak Mountain in Colorado, facts on the founder Zebulon Pike, Cog Railway, and Katherine Lee Bates, who wrote ‘America the Beautiful’
While statistics say that nearly six million people visit the area yearly; you will feel as if you are the only one that has been granted what is surely one of the best views in the world when you reach the summit.
Katherine Lee Bates was so inspired by the view, that the result was her writing the famous ‘America the Beautiful’.
ks.essortment.com /pikespeakcolor_rici.htm   (609 words)

  
 Jill McFeron | Colorado Springs Information for Home Buyers
Welcome to a beautiful city set under Pikes Peak which has been the site of inspirations past and present.
Katherine Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful" while staying in a hotel downtown at Pikes Peak and Tejon Street.
Helen Hunt Jackson envisioned her stay at Colorado Springs with the Indian conflict and racial barriers in her novel, Ramona, while Tesla, the true pioneer in electricity called Colorado Springs his home until he blew out the the city's lights during an electrical experiment.
www.jillmcferon.com /site.asp?id=Colorado_Springs_Information   (248 words)

  
 Textbooks by Katherine Lee Bates - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Katherine Lee Bates - Little Simon - 0689847440
Katharine Lee Bates - Boswell Publishing - 0971554706
Katherine Lee Bates - Kessinger Publishing - 1417992514
www.directtextbook.com /author/katherine-lee-bates   (151 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: America the Beautiful with Book(s)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The narration begins with an introduction to the history of "America the Beautiful," a poem written by Katharine Lee Bates over 100 years ago.
Inspired by the beloved song "American the Beautiful," Minor's book encourages children to treasure our nation's natural beauty and to create their own images to accompany the song.
Minor begins by reading the original poem and sharing information about its author, Katherine Lee Bates.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1591129567   (420 words)

  
 America the Beautiful - Children's Books
It is also a personal commemoration: it is illustrated by Bates’ great-great-grandnephew, Chris Gall, who grew up with the words to the song hanging in his home.
Gall depicts the place where Bates was inspired to write "America The Beautiful." After traveling from her home in Massachusetts across the country through Niagara Falls, Chicago and the Rocky Mountains, she was moved by the view from Colorado’s Pike’s Peak.
Gall says the song was an inspiration to him as he grew into an artist.
www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art20935.asp   (305 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Katherine Lee Bates
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 Childhood Education: Purple Mountain Majesties. The Story of Katherine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful"
The Story of Katherine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful"
The Story of Katherine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful." II.
Miss Bates, a young college teacher, wrote a poem depicting the mountains, prairies, and seas that she saw from the train window as she was heading west.
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 Bates Sheet Music!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Composers, music, lyricist, arrangers: Samuel A. Ward, Katharine Lee Bates.
Composers, music, lyricist, arrangers: Mark Bates, Rollo Armstrong, Dido Armstrong.
Composers, music, lyricist, arrangers: Samuel A. Ward and Katherine Lee Bates.
www.laurasmidiheaven.com /Sheet-Music/Bates.html   (734 words)

  
 Katherine Lee Bates Books America the Beautiful: A Pop-up Book :: CheapXboxGames.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Katherine Lee Bates Books America the Beautiful: A Pop-up Book :: CheapXboxGames.net
Would be better with video or DVD format.
CheapXboxGames.net Katherine Lee Bates products are subject to inventory availability.
www.dailydrinkers.info /ItemId/0689847440   (318 words)

  
 Alibris: Katherine Lee Bates
This new paperback edition of a timeless tribute to the beauty of the country contains Waldman's inspired oil paintings that tell Katharine Lee Bates's song's story.
by Loveland, Seymour, and Bates, Katherine Lee (Introduction by)
From the Introduction: These Old Testament stories, simplified for little hearers and readers, are not meant to take the place of the Bible, but to serve as a foretaste.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Katherine_Lee_Bates   (182 words)

  
 America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates, ISBN 0689852452 And Cowboys by Glen Rounds, ISBN 0823410617
America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates, ISBN 0689852452 And Cowboys by Glen Rounds, ISBN 0823410617
America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates, ISBN 0689852452
Follows a cowboy from sunup to bedtime as he rounds up cattle, kills a rattlesnake, and plays cards in the bunkhouse after dinner.
knightmareapparel.com /beautiful.htm   (101 words)

  
 Music By Katherine Lee Bates - Page 1
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Artists: Edwin Eugene Bagley, Katherine Lee Bates, Edmund L. Gruber, George Frideric Handel, Gioachino Rossini, John Stafford Smith, Samuel F. Smith, John Philip Sousa, William Steffe, Franz von Suppe
Artists: Anonymous, Katherine Lee Bates, George M. Cohan, Stephen Foster, George Gershwin, Lee Greenwood, F.W. Meacham, John Stafford Smith, William Steffe, Meredith Willson
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 eBay - Book: America the Beautiful (ISBN: 0689847440)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates, Robert Sabuda (2004)
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 Bates Katherine Lee Lyrics Download CD ALBUM MP3 Bates Katherine Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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