Brewster Higley

thumb|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 Category:Poets from the United States Category:People from Ohio Category:1823 births Category:1911 deaths