Brewster Higley

Brewster Higley

Brewster Martin Higley VI (November 30, 1823 – December 9, 1911) was an American otolaryngologist who became famous for writing "My Western Home", the source of the famous American folk song "Home on the Range".

Quotes

• Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
     Where the deer and antelope play,
  Where never is heard a discouraging word
     And the sky is not clouded all day.
  • "Oh, Give Me a Home on The Range", st. 1. Smith County Pioneer (c. 1873; reprinted February 19, 1914)
  • "A Home on the Range", st. 1. John A. Lomax (ed.) Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (New York: Macmillan Co., 1910), pp. 39–40:

    Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
       Where the deer and the antelope play,
    Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
       And the skies are not cloudy all day.

    • Additional lyrics, claimed by William and Mary Goodwin, Bill McCabe, Bingham Graves, C. D. Swartz, "Jim", and others. See: John A. Lomax, "Half-Million Dollar Song: Origin of 'Home on the Range'", Southwest Review, vol. 31, no. 1 (Fall, 1945), pp. 4–5; Duncan Emrich (ed.) American Folk Poetry: An Anthology (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Co., 1974), pp. 577–8

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Brewster Higley on Wikipedia