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 ...
"Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play," goes the venerable Western folk song "Home on the Range." Fences strung throughout the western United States to ...