Comparing Will Rogers Life And Career

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William Penn Adair Rogers, more commonly known as Will Rogers, was born in Oolgah, Oklahoma. Although he was mixed like his parents, he identified himself as a Cherokee. At fifty-six Will Rogers died in an airplane crash in Alaska. He was an actor, humorist, performer cowboy, newspaper columnist, and a social commentator. Clemet V. Rogers and Mary America Schrimsher had little Will on November 4th, 1879, He was the youngest of the eight kids including Homer Rogers, Robert Rogers, Maude Rogers, May Rogers, Elizabeth Rogers, Zoe Rogers, and Sallie Rogers. Only Sallie, Maude, and May survived past adulthood. Will attended school at Willow Hassel in Neosho and the he went to Kemper Military School in Boonville. As he got older, Will married Betty Blake in 1908 and they had four children: three boys and one girl starting with Will Rogers Jr., Jimmy Rogers, Fred Rogers, and the lonesome lady Mary Rogers. …show more content…

Then after that he became a trick roper in “Texas Jack’s Wild West Circus”, Jack, who Will said was the smartest showman he’d ever met, is the same man who gave him the idea for his pony stage act. He soon quit and moved to Australia to perform. He came back in 1904, and was at the St. Louis World’s Fair and began trying to perform his roping skills on the Vaudeville circuses. Will’s Vaudeville career began when he gallantly roped a lose steer and they hired him to do his pony roof

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