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The Papers of Will Rogers: The Early Years, November 1879-April 1904

The Papers of Will Rogers: The Early Years, November 1879-April 1904

Rogers, Will
Bair, Barbara
Wertheim, Arthur Frank

Hardcover

Entertainment & Performing ArtsHistorical FiguresGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 0806127457
ISBN13: 9780806127453
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Mar 15 1996
Pages: 640
Weight: 2.25
Height: 1.64 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.35
Language: English

Horses, friends, ragtime music, and steer roping-those were the interests of the youthful Will Rogers as he came of age in the Indian Territory and traveled to the Southern Hemisphere in this first of six definitive volumes of The Papers of Will Rogers.

By separating fact from legend and unveiling new knowledge via extensive archival research, this documentary history represents a unique contribution to Rogers scholarship and to studies of the Cherokee Nation West. Using many previously unpublished letters and photographs-together with introductions, notes, and biographies of his friends and relatives-volume one illuminates Rogers's complex relationship with his father, his Cherokee heritage, his early education, first encounters with his future wife, Betty Blake, his voyage to Argentina, and his fledging years in Wild West shows and circuses in South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.

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