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 ...
"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 ...