Whitney Maxwell Montgomery was born on 14 September 1877 on a farm in the vicinity of Navarro County, Texas, United States of America. He was married to the poet, Vaida Stewart Boyd. The couple wrote poetry, and edited and published numerous books in their print shop. The roots of Whitney Montgomery ran deep into Texas soil and he continued to write of that which he knew and loved. He let others write of bulldozers and skyscrapers, while he wrote of the fields and the farms of Texas. This was the first of his four books of poetry.