Will Rogers: Courtship & Correspondence 1900-1915 - Hardcover

Collins, Reba

9780963288202: Will Rogers: Courtship & Correspondence 1900-1915

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0963288202 ISBN 13: 9780963288202

Publisher: Neighbors & Quaid, 1992

Will Rogers shares his adventures and observations as he traveled the world and recorded his experiences for the benefit of the folks back in Oklahoma.

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About the Author:

Dr. Reba Collins, the country's foremost authority on Will Rogers, has devoted over a quarter of a century to understanding this unique American. In 1975, Dr. Collins left her position as journalism professor and Director of University Relations at the University of Central Oklahoma where she has served for seventeen years to take over the directorship of the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma. She retired as Director Emeritus in 1991, but her research and writing about Will Rogers continues. Dr. Collins also continues to speak on her favorite American from coast to coast, in Hawaii and Alaska, on shipboard and on radio and television.

In addition to other books about Will Rogers, including "Will Rogers Says...", "Will Rogers and Wiley Post in Alaska", "The Will Rogers Memorial" and "Roping Will Rogers' Family Tree", Dr. Collins has written numerous articles, newspaper features and introductions, and she was a major contributor to "Will Rogers: The Man and His Humor".

From Library Journal:

In attractive, coffeetable-book format, Collins reproduces letters that Will Rogers sent to his family, friends, and, particularly, to his future wife, Betty Blake. Rogers wrote the letters during the years when he was traveling the Southern Hemisphere seeking his fortune as a cowboy, and then while he was touring the vaudeville circuit with his successful act of combining rope tricks with bits of humorous, down-home wisdom. Reading the letters is heavy going, especially the early ones, because of poor grammar and spelling, no punctuation, and heavy use of slang. Yet some of the legendary Rogers charm comes through. Commentary is provided by Rogers's two surviving sons, and by the author, who is the retired director of the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma. Purchase where there is special interest.
- Marcia L. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.
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