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As he felt inadequate to the task, he asked local fiddler Dan Kelley to help him set the poem to music. His neighbors took a liking to the song, and soon its fame spread. As people passed through, the song traveled with them, and by the turn of the century, it was variously known as Home On The Range, My Colorado Home, and My Arizona Home..
Historical Marker #1102 in Bardstown notes the location of Federal Hill, better known as My Old Kentucky Home.. This Kentucky landmark was the estate of Judge John Rowan and reputedly served as the inspiration for Stephen Foster's minstrel song of the same name. Foster likely wrote My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night in 1852, which was published early the next year. Significantly, the same time that Foster wrote the song, the novel Uncle Tomâs Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published and became an immediate transatlantic bestseller.