Daniel E. Kelley
1843–1905 · 19th century · 1 melody
Daniel E. Kelley (1843–1905) was a musician in Kansas who wrote the melody of Home on the Range. Melody you can play here: Home on the Range.
The song began in the early 1870s as a poem by Brewster Higley, which Kelley set to music. It spread by word of mouth among settlers and cowboys long before it was printed.