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Home on the Range

Pottawatomie County
Location: on OK-18 in Fairview Cemetery in Shawnee
Coordinates: 35.343130, -96.911991
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Topics: Arts; Early Statehood, 1907–1941; Social/Cultural; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Dr. Brewster Higley died in Shawnee in 1911, several years before his song, "Home on the Range," was declared an American frontier ballad. The words to the song were first printed in a newspaper in 1873. Dr. Higley never saw a printed copy of the song or received a penny's royalty.

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