found: Besmilr Brigham reading her poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, Nov. 14, 1972 [SR] 1972.
found: LC data base, 6-2-94(hdg.: Brigham, Besmilr)
found: Hard lines, 2016:page 266 (Besmilr Brigham (1913-2000), raised by farmers in the Rio Grande Valley, studied at a women's Baptist college)
found: Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture web site, May 17, 2016:(Besmilr Moore Brigham (1913-2000), aka: Bess Miller Moore ; Besmilr Moore Brigham was an award-winning poet and short-story writer who lived in Arkansas for decades. Bess Miller Moore was born on September 28, 1913, in Pace, Mississippi. Her grandfather was Choctaw. She later changed her name to the more phonetic spelling "Besmilr." She graduated from Mary Hardin-Baylor College in Texas and later studied at the New School for Social Research in New York, where she met and married Roy Brigham, who worked for a newspaper. Brigham died in 2000 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.) - http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1026
