Lesson 2
Will Rogers
Will Rogers
audiences
popular
Alaska
statue
Capitol
Oklahoma
nowadays
funeral
stomachache
Words for Study
ancestors
Cherokee
arithmetic
Andrew Jackson
North Carolina
Will Rogers
One cowboy of the Old West who did become a
movie star was Will Rogers, who was born in 1879.
Rogers' cowboy background was not as a gun-
fighter. His skill was with the rope, and often he
would do fancy rope tricks while he spoke to
audiences throughout the country.
Besides public speaking, Will Rogers was in
fifty silent movies and twenty-one talking films,
wrote six books, and was highly popular on the
radio. In 1935, Rogers died in a plane crash on the
northern coast of Alaska.
A statue of Rogers stands in the United States
regular
government
travel
sightseeing
almanac
you had a stomachache back then, the doctor
cured it; if you have it nowadays, they remove
your stomach.
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My ancestors didn't come over on the
flower, but they met the boat. My father
one-eighth Cherokee Indian, and my mother
quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got fare
arithmetic to figure out just how much "Injun"
that makes me, but there's nothing of which I am
more proud than my Cherokee blood.
It was old Andy Jackson that run us
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