Hall’s train was held up by a snowstorm in Missouri, but he eventually made it to the then-912-acre preserve in the Ouachita Mountains and promptly panned it in a note to his superiors. He declared ...

Katharine Lee Bates used the term “purple mountains’ majesty” when she wrote the lyrics to the popular, patriotic song, “America the Beautiful,” but I’ve dropped the color for my version because most ...

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK - Layered folds of dusky purple mountain peaks stretch to the horizon, pockets of blue haze softly settling between the ridges. Their outline was bolder and fiercer ...

The Noontime Nature lecture at the Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., for 2019 follows the theme “Twelve Dozen Things about Colorado.” The second program of the series, “Purple Mountains ...

Katharine Lee Bates, a Wellesley College professor, traveled to Colorado Springs in 1893 to teach summer school. While there, she visited Pikes Peak, the highest summit of the southern Front Range of ...

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