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Self uncredited. Fields Video documentary Self. Soon after, he developed a vaudeville act featuring his mostly silent roping of a friend, Buck McKee, on a favorite horse. The act toured to many U. Although his father continued to urge a return to the emerging life of Oklahoma as a new state, he continued to resist. In , after an extended and frustrating courtship, Will Rogers married Betty Blake, whom he had met years before in Oologah.

Betty, one of seven Blake sisters from Rogers, Arkansas, had spurned his early advances, perhaps from social prejudice toward the Indian-cowboy, perhaps from a personal desire for a life more secure than the theater circuit. Rogers called his marriage to Betty "the star [ropin'] performance of my life. The couple had four children: Will, Jr. The youngest, named for Will, Sr. The momentum of Rogers's broad popular success began to build with the move to California. His association with Ziegfeld in New York began in , but his real notoriety there came between and , after financial difficulties in his California movie ventures required seasonal returns to the Follies and a regular paycheck.

Having issued two short books of "Rogers-isms" about prohibition and the peace conference in , Will Rogers began in to write a weekly column for a New York paper and, after , a brief daily "telegram" as well. Both were syndicated and eventually distributed around the nation to more than five hundred newspapers. His frequent after-dinner speaking engagements and radio broadcasts in the s and s put him in touch with groups all across American society—presidents, senators, congressmen, entertainers, business leaders, aviators, and common folk.

He seems to have caught the spirit of a developing age in politics, transportation, and communication. New and larger audiences attended him, and he rarely disappointed them. Notoriety opened doors to travel and to high-profile friendships. Although his homespun humor and common-sense diplomatic and political advice drew the ire of a few professionals, his amateur advisement did not cool his friendship with Calvin Coolidge and other presidents.

He associated with the "big men" of several industries—Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Charles Lindbergh, scores of senators and congressmen, and the emerging movie celebrities, of which he himself was one—and the most popular of all for a time. His seventy-one movies, including A Connecticut Yankee , Ambassador Bill , State Fair , and Steamboat Round the Bend , are only a part of his legacy to entertainment. Will Rogers's quips became known everywhere. It was a meeting place for commerce, government and community socials.

There was sadness with funerals, but gaiety with parties, weddings and christenings. When not learning on his mother's lap, Will Rogers was on the range as a hard-working cowboy. Taught by a freed slave how to use a lasso as a tool to work Texas Longhorn cattle on the family ranch, Will Rogers mastered the lariat for trick roping on stages of the world.

From living among Indians and blacks, he carried lessons of brotherhood that came from understanding the pride of minorities. Hard-earned lariat skills won Will Rogers employment as a trick roper in wild west shows and on the vaudeville stage. His lessons of life, visions of humanity and kind spirit were formed into wit, jokes and observations that bespoke great human dimensions.

Humor and folksy observations by Will Rogers were prized by audiences around the world. He proved visionary, well informed and simply a smart philosopher. He told truth in simple words so that everyone could understand.