Sheriff Jason Mikesell of Teller County, Colorado, is embroiled in a legal battle with the American Civil Liberties Union of ...

Pikes Peak’s “purple mountain majesties” may have inspired Katharine Lee Bates to write her poem “America the Beautiful” in 1893. But it’s another set of colors that inspired the ...

A mad scramble for space that's going to transform the entire country The United States of America, home of purple mountain majesties, amber waves of grain, and seas of shining … solar farms?

You know, the words help me out here. Your purple mountain majesties. Please remain at your seats while the President and official party depart the platform.

The dream of the American West never really fades, but right now it’s back in a big way. Cowboy (and girl) culture is having a moment, with Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter world tour arriving in London on ...

Yet these icons hardly capture the entirety of America the Beautiful’s spacious skies, amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties and fruited plains. So how about looking further afield?