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is now known throughout the world as “Home On The Range,” the state song of Kansas. Higley came to Kansas from Ohio. He homesteaded on the banks of Beaver Creek in Smith County, near the Nebraska border in north-central Kansas. His first three wives had died from illness and injury, and his fourth marriage became an unhappy union. Higley moved far away from his matrimonial discord and, on the Kansas prairie, he found peace, which inspired “My Western Home.” In the 1870s, the song spread like wildfire. It gained popularity along cattle trails and in small-town dance halls. The sheet music was published for the first time in 1910 by John Lomax, a Texas college professor researching folk music of the Old West. He labeled it “Home on the Range” and published it in the book, “Cowboy Songs and Frontier Ballads.” Refrains of the song were heard everywhere, from pianos and pump organs in home parlors to artists who recorded it for phonographs and sang it over radio airways. In the heart of the Great Depression, President
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Home on the Range
Franklin Roosevelt declared it his favorite song. But then it was nearly stolen from Kansas. In 1934, William and Mary Goodwin of Arizona claimed they wrote the song, “An Arizona Home,” and filed a lawsuit against radio giant NBC. For a time, the song was banned. In the mid-1930s, Samuel Moanfeldt, an attorney for NBC, was hired to track down the song’s origin so that it could once again be played in public. His findings showed the song’s Kansas roots. In 1947, the Kansas Legislature declared “Home on the Range” the official song of Kansas. “A German interviewer asked me what creates the popularity, and I said … ‘Close your eyes and sing the song .. I challenge you to not think of your home where you were born,’ ” said El Dean Holthus, the spokesman for the Home on the Range Cabin. Even now, as visitors make their way to the cabin — which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 — they sing the words. A few weeks ago, Janet Hardee and her niece, Rachel Behney, both from Sumter, South Carolina, made a pilgrimage to the cabin. “I love that song,” Hardee said. “This is probably my fifth time. I love places like this.”
O give me a home where the buffaloes roam Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day Home, home on the range Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day Where the air is so pure and the zephyrs so free And the breezes so balmy and light That I would not exchange my home on the range For all of the cities so bright Home, home on the range Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day How often at night when the heavens are bright With the light of the glittering stars I stand there amazed and I ask as I gaze Does their glory exceed that of ours? Home, home on the range Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day
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