El Dean Holthus of Smith Center, Kansas, leads a tour of the property where Brewster Higley wrote 'Home on the Range,' including a restored cabin where Higley lived. El Dean Holthus knows what people ...
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 ...