Will Rogers
Will Rogers shaped provided many people with laughter throughout the early 1900's abroad and here in the United States through his many careers he chose. Will Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 in a home his father had built near the Verdigris River bottom lands in the Cooweescoowee District of Indian Territory. His parents were Mary and Clem Rodgers. They named there first son William Penn Adair Rodgers after a distinguished Cherokee, William Penn Adair, who served as his people's delegate in Washington. Will's father had also served with him during the Civil War. When it was time for Will to go to school he was sent to stay with his sister Sallie. Their home was across the river from the Rogers ranch and near Drumgoul, which was soon to be young Will's first school. It was a little one-room log cabin, all Indian school, jsut four miles east of Chelsea. It was often difficult for Clem to be patient with Will. For he was a stubborn little boy. The activities Will enjoyed the most during his childhood were the rides with his father and the days where he spent every idle moment attempting to improve his roping skills. He had quite a few lariat's taken away at school. Will did p
He would never again return to school. All he cared about was roping so that was all he cared to do. After the invention of sound in films, Rogers found a large audience in such pictures as A Connecticut Yankee (1931), Down to Earth (1932), State Fair (1933), David Harum (1934), Life Begins at Forty (1935), ect. Will didn't like to be still for long. He meet the owner of Texas Jack's Wild West Circus and he was offered a roping job. It was just before he took of for Juneau. Will had four children, Bill, Jimmy, Mary, and Jock. After 1914 Will appeared in several of the annual Ziegfeld Follies in New York City. He even became close friends with many of them. As Will grew older it still seemed he would never settle down. His father was constantly sending him to one school or another because he was constantly unsatisfied with Will's progress. He also acted in many motion pictures and even wrote a series of syndicated newspaper articles.
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