Purple Mountain Majesties (Reading Railroad)

Type

Book

Authors

Barbara Younger

ISBN 10

0142301817

ISBN 13

9780142301814

Tags

United States, Action & Adventure, Historical, Literary

Description

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 and lyrical text blend together to show the magnificence of the United States of America and how it inspired Katharine Lee Bates to pen the poem that would become our nation's unofficial national anthem. Illustrated by Stacey Schuett "Younger makes a living character out of Bates, whose quirks and full-bodied charm gracefully flow from the letters and diary excerpts." (Kirkus Reviews, pointer review) - from Amzon

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