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 ...
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 ...