Of the many books about Will Rogers, none can have the immediacy, firsthand knowledge, and personal perspective of this account by his wife, Bett Blake Rogers. Her story is of Will Rogers, from wayward youth to international celebrity.
Will was born in 1879 in the Cherokee Nation of Indian Territory, near what is now Oolagah, and died in 1935 with Wiley Post in an airplane crash in Alaska. That period witnessed the passing of the frontier and the arrival of the air age, and Will Rogers became a unique part and interpreter of it all.
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