She was Kick-Ass Katie Lee, the Goddess of Glen Canyon, a woman who took no shit, liked saying “fuck,” and rode naked through Jerome on a bicycle, in imitation of Lady Godiva.

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Katie Lee—a noted activist, environmentalist, folksinger, river runner, and writer—has died at her home in Jerome, Arizona. She was 98. Lee was born in 1919 in Tucson, Arizona.

Katie Lee in Glen Canyon before the construction of the dam. Credit: Martin D. Cligan photo courtesy of katydoodit.com. Some of those responses have been shared here, edited for length and clarity.

Of all those who vehemently argued against the drowning of Glen Canyon, the voice of Katie Lee, a petite blond actress, singer, songwriter and author can still be heard cursing the Bureau of ...

Conservationist and environmental activist Katie Lee died this week at the age of 98 in Jerome, Arizona. She gave up a career in Hollywood to spend her life outdoors, protecting, documenting and ...

Author, musician and environmental activist Katie Lee died Wednesday in Jerome at ... especially Glen Canyon before the dam and Lake Powell were created. The river trip gave her a new perspective ...

The last stretch of the trip was designed to reconnoiter what we could of Glen Canyon. Writer and river legend Katie Lee calls Glen Canyon, “The Place We Knew.” Anyone who has read Lee’s ...

This is Katie Lee, speaking at the age of 95 about the fight against the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. Katie Lee: “And that’s when I started writing articles about it. I started ...

It was written about by Katie Lee and Edward Abbey and explored by John Wesley Powell in his initial voyage down the Colorado in the late 1800s. It's this wonderful, beautiful place that is ...