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About Brewster Higley
Brewster Martin Higley VI was an otolaryngologist who became famous for writing "My Western Home". Originally written in 1871 or 1872 and published under the title "My Western Home" in the Smith County Pioneer in the fall of 1873, possibly December, this poem later became the original lyrics for the famous American folk song "Home on the Range".
Everything about Brewster Higley →- Occupation
- poet
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 30, 1823
- Died
- December 9, 1911