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Pikes Peak was actually discovered by Zebulon Pike and his first attempt to get to the top of Pikes Peak began in 1806. But that attempt failed. Katherine Lee Bates visited it and wrote "America the Beautiful" in 1893. Pikes Peak was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.

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