The Quotable Will Rogers (Western Humor) - Hardcover

Carter, Joseph

 
9781586856960: The Quotable Will Rogers (Western Humor)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1586856960 ISBN 13: 9781586856960
Verlag: GIBBS SMITH PUB, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Joe Carter's exceptional knowledge of Will Rogers receives high praise from Larry Gatlin, who claims "Carter knows more about the late great Will Rogers than anybody else in the known world and parts of Oklahoma."

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Joseph H. Carter and his wife, Michelle, manage Oklahoma's nine-gallery Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore and 400-acre 1879 birthplace ranch near Oologah. Carter, a former White House speech writer, university vice president and newsman, wrote Never Met a Man I Didn't Like: The Life and Writings of Will Rogers, consulted in the opening of the Broadway musical The Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Revue, and assisted the University of Oklahoma in publishing the scholarly five-volume Papers of Will Rogers. Joseph and his wife live in Claremore, Oklahoma.

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This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something. Villains are getting as thick as college degrees and sometimes on the same fellow.

The Quotable Will Rogers

Great artists say that the most beautiful thing in the world is a baby. Well, the next is an old lady, for every wrinkle is a picture. You can't have the picnic unless the party carrying the basket comes. If you live life right, death is a joke as far as fear is concerned. They want peace. But they want a gun to get it with.

With a Foreword by Larry Gatlin

The more you know, the more you think somebody owes you a living. Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes. When a fellow don't have much mind it don't take him long to make it up. You don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in. I am kind of like a politician. The less I know about anything the more I can say about it.

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The Quotable Will Rogers celebrates the life and career of one of America's most beloved entertainers. Dubbed the "Cowboy Philosopher," Will's straight-talkin', wise-crackin', witty political commentary and social musings endeared him to kings and commoners alike.

Illustrated with many never-before-published photographs and a collection of his best known quotes, The Quotable Will Rogers also includes biographical information on Will Rogers's family and his life as an entertainer, humorist, radio personality, actor and newspaper columnist. Sit back, kick yer boots off and enjoy!

Joseph H. Carter and his wife, Michelle, manage Oklahoma's nine-gallery Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore and 400-acre 1879 birthplace ranch near Oologah. Carter, a former White House speech writer, university vice president and newsman, wrote Never Met a Man I Didn't Like: The Life and Writings of Will Rogers; consulted in the opening of the Broadway musical The Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Revue; and assisted the University of Oklahoma in publishing the scholarly five-volume Papers of Will Rogers. Joseph and his wife line in Claremore, Oklahoma.

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All About Will

Election day, November 4, 1879, in the southeast corner room of a log-walled, colonial-style seven-room house, Mary America Schrimsher Rogers gave birth to the son of Clement Vann Rogers, their eighth and final child.

"I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day. . . . My birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year. "

Clement Vann Rogers and Mary America Schrimsher met while attending a boarding school in the Cherokee Nation capital of Tahlequah. Mary loved her studies, was refined, musically gifted and a Methodist. Clem despised school, was a hard-riding cattleman and commercially astute. They married and moved to his Cooweescoowee District ranch two years before the Civil War started.

The proud father dubbed the newborn Colonel William Penn Adair Rogers, as a salute to the Indian military leader who was his battalion commander during the terrible War Between the States. The Civil War that had ended fourteen years earlier had left stains of blood across the Cherokee Nation, where Indian clans and even cousins fought each other in a senseless battle fifteen hundred miles away.

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Verlag
GIBBS SMITH PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1586856960
ISBN 13 
9781586856960
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Anzahl der Seiten
96
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