"Home On The Range" Letterbox
Smith County, Kansas

Placed 9/17/2000.
This letterbox is easily accessible by car from Highway 36.
(Confirmed to be still "alive" by Der Mad Stamper on 12/24/04.)

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"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
and the deer and the antelope play!"

This Letterbox commemorates the birthplace of the Kansas state song, "Home On The Range." In the autumn of 1872, Dr. Brewster M. Higley, M.D., wrote the words to this song in his small log cabin on Beaver Creek, Smith county, Kansas. The cabin still stands on the farm of Ellen Rust, one mile west, eight miles north and three-fourths mile west of Athol, Kansas.


Clues:  
You may rely on the sentinels of stone to guide you Home.
Day and night, they never tire, there is so much at stake.

 

— Der Mad Stamper (and Little Foot)

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