Members of the Kansas Authors Club opposed the song and the legislature failed to adopt it. "Hymn to Kansas" by Luadah Sallee Baughman and Lewis C. and Gene Stanley was considered, but the state legislature failed to adopt it. In 1921 the song "My Golden Kansas" by Harry W. No winners were announced in either contest. The Kansas Federation of Music Clubs held a similar contest in 1923. The Woman's Kansas Day Club held a contest the following year. Governor Arthur Capper in 1915 generated interest in designating a state song. "Cal" Harlan, living in Smith County, recalled singing the tune 60 years earlier in the Harlan orchestra. Early Dodge City cowboys had also sung a version of "Home on the Range." The 86-year-old Clarence B. The MPPA found a mining song, "Colorado Home," with similar music and lyrics, that had been sung as early as 1885. The saloonkeeper had previously driven cattle on the Chisholm Trail to Kansas. Lomax had recorded a saloonkeeper singing "Home on the Range" in 1908. It discovered that all later versions could be traced back to John Lomax, a Texas university professor who collected folk songs and published a collection in 1910. The Museum Publishers Protective Association (MPPA) conducted an extensive investigation on the claim. In 1934 William and Mary Goodwin filed a $500,000 lawsuit claimed infringement of their "My Arizona Home," which had been copyrighted in 1905. David Guion, Dallas, Texas, revised the song in 1930 for a Broadway show, when it was retitled "Home on the Range." These published versions claimed no known composer or author. In 1925 the song was published as sheet music in San Antonio, Texas. "My Western Home" became a favorite dance tune. He, his wife, Lulu Harlan Kelley, and two of her brothers formed the popular Harlan orchestra, much in demand between 18. Kelley was a civil War veteran who moved to Gaylord in Smith County in 1872. Kelley, a friend of Higley's, was credited with picking out a melody on his guitar to serve as the tune. The Kansas Farmer in Topeka printed a verse on April 22, 1874, and the Kirwin Chief published the poem March 21, 1874, then republished on the front page on February 26, 1876.ĭaniel E. The Smith County Pioneer published the lyrics early in 1874 and reprinted them in 1914. Soon newspapers around the state were distributing the lyrics. So taken with his new home, Higley wrote a poem entitled, "My Western Home," in celebration of the prairie. Soon he was living in a small cabin along West Beaver Creek. at first Higley lived in a one-room dugout on his homestead 14 miles northwest of Smith Center, where he soon became a county officer. Higley VI, originally of Rutland, Ohio, was an otolaryngologist who moved from Indiana to Smith County in 1871 under the Homestead Act.
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