Home on the Range

Historical marker location:

1332 N Harrison Ave, Shawnee, Oklahoma

( Marker is on North Harrison Avenue (State Highway 18), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1959

Dr. Brewster Higley died in Shawnee in 1911, several years before his song, "Home on the Range," was declared an American frontier ballad. The words to the song were first printed in a newspaper in 1873. Dr. Higley never saw a printed copy of the song or received a penny's royalty.