In 1872, what's perhaps the world's best-known folk song was written in a tiny cabin in Smith County, Kansas. On a tiny patch of land in Smith County, Brewster Higley wrote a six-verse poem in 1872 ...
The cowboy classic, “Home on the Range,” a tune that leisurely lopes along with a whistle and a hum, is one that has long soundtracked the American West. Evoking images of sprawling prairies and ...
"Home on the Range," written in the early 1870s by Brewster M. Higley of Smith County in north-central Kansas, became the Kansas state song in 1947. And on Kansas Day, Jan. 29, Maria the Mexican ...